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

Posted by msmash on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @04:45AM 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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Love that Wyden by Tinsoldier314 · 2018-09-12 05:05 · Score: 3, Interesting

Seems like every time I see the Senate doing something rational regarding tech, the internet, net neutrality, etc., Ron Wyden is involved or leading the charge. I appreciate his track record on this kind of thing. I think he should be honored as a defacto Slashdotter.
1. Re: Love that Wyden by Anonymous Coward · 2018-09-12 06:20 · Score: 0, Interesting
  
  Wyden the establishment con man who supports repealing the First Amendment.
  
  Of course, the botnetted modpoints will go to mod +5 to anyone supporting a repeal of the Bill of Rights.