Risky Business #760 – Microsoft to make MFA mandatory

On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news including:

• Microsoft did a good thing! Soon all Azure admins will require MFA


• The three billion row National Public Data breach mess, courtesy Florida Man


• US govt confirms that it was Iran that hacked the Trump campaign


• Is TP-Link the next Huawei, or just not very good at computers?


• Major Chinese RFID card maker has hardcoded backdoors


• And much, much more.

This week’s episode is sponsored by Specter Ops, makers of Bloodhound Enterprise. VP of Products Justin Kohler joins to talk about how they’ve joined their on-prem AD and cloud Entra attack path graphs, so you can map out that juicy, real-world attack surface.

Show notes

• Announcing mandatory multi-factor authentication for Azure sign-in | Microsoft Azure Blog



• phishing resistant mfa - Google Search



• Microsoft will require MFA for all Azure users



• NationalPublicData.com Hack Exposes a Nation’s Data – Krebs on Security



• National Public Data Published Its Own Passwords – Krebs on Security



• Bloomberg Law



• How the government's proposed 'Trust Exchange' digital ID scheme would work - ABC News



• German Cyber Agency Wants Changes in Microsoft, CrowdStrike Products After Tech Outage - WSJ



• Joint ODNI, FBI, and CISA Statement on Iranian Election Influence Efforts — FBI



• Crypto firm says hacker locked all employees out of Google products for four days



• ZachXBT on X: "Seven hours ago a suspicious transfer was made from a potential victim for 4064 BTC ($238M)" / X



• Bitcoin News Today: $238 Million Bitcoin Heist Linked to Genesis Global Trading



• Routers from China-based TP-Link a national security threat, US lawmakers claim



• Hardware backdoors found in Chinese smart cards



• Unmasking Styx Stealer: How a Hacker's Slip Led to an Intelligence Treasure Trove - Check Point Research



• Hardware backdoors found in Chinese smart cards



• Man who hacked Hawaii state registry to forge his own death certificate sentenced to 81 months