The image shows an account of mine and the attempted logins from various countries around the world. It’s more common than you think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I know that “two-factor extra six digit pin thing” is a pain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Using MFA<\/a> for services like your email, banking and password manager<\/a> (you use one, right?) is not so great a hardship once or twice a day. Consider how valuable a target those services can be. Access to your e-mail allows an attacker to reset your account password! <\/p>\n\n\n\n While the “text code to your phone” is an option, it’s not the best method (due to “sim swap<\/a>” attacks and the like). Better to use a code generator, preferably one based on a key or other security device<\/a>. They are easy to pop into a USB port or tap on your phone to garner the login codes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n As far as security goes, convenience often isn’t the best option. <\/p>\n\n\n\n To get to my email I have to type a drive decryption code, my system login password, insert a USB security key (kept on my keychain) and type my mailbox password. Takes seconds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Really!<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The image shows an account of mine and the attempted logins from various countries around the world. It’s more common than you think. I know that “two-factor extra six digit pin thing” is a pain. Using MFA for services like your email, banking and password manager (you use one, right?) is not so great a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-learning","category-privacy","category-security","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}