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Senators Grill Pompeo on Vulnerable Cybersecurity at State Department (axios.com)

Posted by msmash on from the holding-accountable dept.

A bipartisan cadre of senators sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday calling out the department's poor adoption of multi-factor authentication. From a report: Multi-factor authentication requires users to take an additional protective step when logging into an account -- often a physical key or a biometric scan. Beyond being a good practice for federal agencies, multi-factor authentication is also the law for all high-level government accounts. Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Rand Paul (R-Kent.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H) pointed to a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that found only 11% of required agency devices had enhanced security.

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  1. About Hillary's email server... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Ahhh, too soon? Too easy!