Philadelphia Inquirer Cyberattack: Learn from the mistakes of others
When I was in junior high school I got tutoring from Steve Bell to help me with a class I was struggling with. One of the many things I learned from Steve is that there are three types of people in the world:
- Those that never learn
- Those that learn from their own mistakes
- Those that learn from the mistake of others
This morning I came across an article in InformationWeek:
Cyberattack Takes Down Systems at Philadelphia Inquirer
The Philadelphia Inquirer was hit with a cyberattack days before the city’s mayoral primary election. What details of the attack have been made public, and how vulnerable are other media companies to this kind of cybersecurity incident?
One line in the article stuck out to me:
The Philadelphia Inquirer coverage of the cyberattack published on May 14 noted that the paper does not require multifactor authentication for a number of systems.
The importance and value of multi-factor authentication cannot be underestimated. Learn from the mistakes of others!