Rated #1 in Irresponsible Security Journalism

<p>All links and images for this episode can be found on CISO Series (<a href= "https://cisoseries.com/rated-1-in-irresponsible-security-journalism/">https://cisoseries.com/rated-1-in-irresponsible-security-journalism/</a>)</p> <p>No security alert is too small for us to completely misrepresent its severity. The sky <em>is </em>falling on the latest episode of <em>CISO/Security Vendor Relationship Podcast</em>.</p> <p><strong>Thanks to this week's podcast sponsor, Zix.</strong></p> <p><a href= "https://link.zixcentral.com/u/e074d9bf/PtKnWnHg6RGaovCusebghQ?u=https%3A%2F%2Fgo.zixcorp.com%2FCISO-Podcast_Suite.html"> <img src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/24425/ZixSuite_Banner_Amanda.png" alt="Zix" width="600" height="100" /></a></p> <p><a href= "https://link.zixcentral.com/u/e074d9bf/PtKnWnHg6RGaovCusebghQ?u=https%3A%2F%2Fgo.zixcorp.com%2FCISO-Podcast_Suite.html"> <em>Zix</em></a> <em>simplifies administration and reporting with a single management interface. Configuring, deploying, and monitoring email security and unified archiving services has never been easier – or faster. ZixSuite combines a cloud-based email threat protection, email encryption, and unified business communications archiving, all backed by Zix’s gold standard 24/7/365 support.</em></p> <p><em><!-- wp:paragraph --></em></p> <p><strong>On this week's episode</strong></p> <p><em><!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading --></em></p> <h2>Why is everybody talking about this now?</h2> <p><em><!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph --></em></p> <p>Two recent stories showed some fallibility in multi-factor authentication or MFA. We repeatedly recommended MFA on this show. But, the <a href= "https://www.zdnet.com/article/fbi-warns-about-attacks-that-bypass-multi-factor-authentication-mfa/"> FBI announced some technical and social engineering techniques that are being used to break multi-factor authentication</a>. In addition, <a href= "https://boingboing.net/2019/10/08/twitter-admits-two-factor-logi.html"> Twitter admitted that email addresses and