The United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) this week added single-factor authentication to its list of bad practices. “Single-factor authentication is a common low-security method of authentication. It only requires matching one factor—such as a password—to a username to gain access to a system,” CISA says. While the agency mainly refers to “the…
Australia’s Phillip Island is home to the largest colony of little penguins on the planet. Ten of the birds were fitted with trackers measuring GPS, water temperature and the depth the penguins are feeding at during the breeding season. BBC Click finds out more. See more at Click’s website and @BBCClick
A vulnerability that Microsoft patched in Exchange Server earlier this year can allow attackers to set forwarding rules on target accounts and gain access to incoming emails. Tracked as CVE-2021-33766 and referred to as ProxyToken, the vulnerability has a severity rating of medium (CVSS score of 6.5). The security hole was identified by Le Xuan…
Gunfire rang out at Kabul as the Taliban celebrated the last US troops leaving Afghanistan. BBC News chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet says the skies were full of red tracer and machine gun fire as the Taliban hailed the US departure, nearly 20 years since the US-led invasion forced them from power.
Major General Chris Donahue is the last American to board the final US military flight out of Afghanistan. As the Taliban took over Kabul airport at the start of 31 August – the deadline President Biden had set for US withdrawal – shots were fired into the skies in celebration.
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A new tool which could help detect breast cancer has been trialled at Nottingham University Hospital. The artificial intelligence known as MIA was trained using historical scans to see if it would make the same diagnosis as humans. In the UK mammograms are reviewed by two specialists and it is hoped the artificial intelligence (AI)…
Single-factor authentication (SFA) has been added today by the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to a very short list of cybersecurity bad practices it advises against. CISA’s Bad Practices catalog includes practices the federal agency has deemed “exceptionally risky” and not to be used by organizations in the government and the private sector as…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added single-factor authentication to the short list of “exceptionally risky” cybersecurity practices that could expose critical infrastructure as well as government and the private sector entities to devastating cyberattacks. Single-factor authentication is a method of signing in users to websites and remote systems by using…
JERUSALEM: Check Point Software Technologies said on Monday it acquired U.S.-Israeli cyber security company Avanan, which specialises in protecting email, where most cyber attacks begin. Check Point, which is based in Israel, did not disclose financial details. “More and more businesses are moving to cloud-email platforms and with email becoming a major channel to launch…
