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. From a report: The warning comes from Alex Weinert, Director of Identity Security at Microsoft. For the past year, Weinert has…

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The contactless delivery service is expanding in over 4,000 cities across the US. …read more Source:: CNet

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Lesley Carhart, with Dragos, gives Threatpost a behind-the-scenes look at how industrial companies are faring during the COVID-19 pandemic – and how they can prepare for future threats. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Mesa contributor issues a warning: community matters Intel’s driver support for Linux is improving, but has raised an eyebrow or two within the open source community as a Mesa contributor noted that Chipzilla’s code-sharing development model was not necessarily a win.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Europe is in the middle of another wave of COVID-19. Here’s how Nico Orie, Vice President of People and Culture, Coca-Cola European Partners, is managing through. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Let the good light in. …read more Source:: CNet

Recent efforts to take down the virulent botnet have been largely — but not entirely — successful. …read more Source:: DarkReading

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: [A] new study [published in the journal Nature] by Lin Li and Pinaki Chakraborty at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University focuses on a less-than-obvious question: what happens to hurricanes after landfall in a warming world? Once a storm moves over land, it…