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The interest in passwordless authentication has increased due to the rise of hybrid work environments and widespread digitization. This has led to a greater need for reliable data security and...

Attackers are increasingly turning to session hijacking to get around widespread MFA adoption. The data supports this, as: 147,000 token replay attacks were detected by Microsoft in 2023, a 111%...

Ransomware is seen as the biggest cybersecurity threat across every industry, with 75% of organizations affected by ransomware more than once in the past 12 months – a jump from 61% in 2023,...

Now it's the default for all new accounts Snowflake continues to push forward in strengthening its users' cybersecurity posture by making multi-factor authentication the default for all new accounts.…

Crew bragged they could help crooks raid victims' bank accounts Updated A trio of men have pleaded guilty to running a multifactor authentication (MFA) bypass ring in the UK, which authorities...

Three men have pleaded guilty to running OTP.Agency, an online platform that provided social engineering help to obtain one-time passcodes from customers of various banks and services in the U.K. [...]

Three men have pleaded guilty to running OTP.Agency, an online platform that provided social engineering help to obtain one-time passcodes from customers of various banks and services in the U.K. [...]

Attackers are increasingly using new phishing toolkits (open-source, commercial, and criminal) to execute adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks. AitM enables attackers to not just harvest...

Microsoft is making multi-factor authentication - "One of the most effective security measures available" - mandatory for all Azure sign-ins. October 2024: MFA will be required to sign-in to Azure portal, Microsoft Entra admin center, and Intune admin center Early 2025: MFA required for signing in for Azure Command Line Interface, Azure PowerShell, Azure mobile app and Infrastructure as Code tools.

Microsoft warned Entra global admins on Thursday to enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) for their tenants until October 15 to ensure users don't lose access to admin portals. [...]