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2020-11-18 19:00:04

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2022-07

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While cybersecurity professionals have been recommending app or token based 2FA for a long time, Microsoft is now hopping on board by telling people to stop using SMS codes for 2FA. Here's a great resource for this: https://twofactorauth.org/ - if you have an account at a site, I highly recommend using this site to check off and audit your 2FA setup!

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Microsoft urges users to stop using phone-based multi-factor authentication | ZDNet

Microsoft is urging users to abandon telephone-based multi-factor authentication (MFA) solutions like one-time codes sent via SMS and voice calls and instead replace them with newer MFA technologies, like app-based authenticators and security keys. The warning comes from Alex Weinert, Director of Identity Security at Microsoft.