MFA Made Easy: 8 Best Practices for Authentication | CSA
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is a core part of Zero Trust strategies. Yet, MFA adoption lags due to the poor user experience, leaving companies vulnerable.
Ubuntu Disables Spectre/Meltdown Protections - Schneier on Security
A whole class of speculative execution attacks against CPUs were published in 2018. They seemed pretty catastrophic at the time. But the fixes were as well. Speculative execution was a way to speed up CPUs, and removing those enhancements resulted in significant performance drops. Now, people are rethinking the trade-off. Ubuntu has disabled some protections, resulting in 20% performance boost. After discussion between Intel and Canonicalâs security teams, we are in agreement that Spectre no longer needs to be mitigated for the GPU at the Compute Runtime level. At this point, Spectre has been mitigated in the kernel, and a clear warning from the Compute Runtime build serves as a notification for those running modified kernels without those patches. For these reasons, we feel that Spectre mitigations in Compute Runtime no longer offer enough security impact to justify the current performance tradeoff...
Australian airline Qantas disclosed that it detected a cyberattack on Monday after threat actors gained access to a third-party platform containing customer data.
AT&T rolls out "Wireless Lock" feature to block SIM swap attacks
AT&T has launched a new security feature called "Wireless Lock" that protects customers from SIM swapping attacks by preventing changes to their account information and the porting of phone numbers while the feature is enabled.
Cloudflare rolls out âpay-per-crawlâ feature to constrain AIâs limitless hunger for data | CyberScoop
Cloudflare announced Tuesday it will allow customers to block or charge fees for web crawlers deployed to scrape their websites and data on behalf of AI systems.
AT&T deploys new account lock feature to counter SIM swapping | CyberScoop
AT&T has launched a feature to help prevent SIM swapping and unauthorized account changes, offering added security for both individual and business wireless customers.