Reply to post: Re: 2FA

UK parliamentary email compromised after 'sustained and determined cyber attack'

Alister

Re: 2FA

I think others have hit the nail on the head with our parliamentarians being too important to be bothered with trivialities such as 2FA.

Well, I don't. If you use an email client, the last thing you want is a text, phone call or other 2FA process every time the client connects to the server.

As far as I know this is not an attack on a web based mail account we are talking about, it is repeated authentication attempts against a server using SMTP, IMAP or other mail protocol. It would be most unusual to have 2FA on that sort of connection.

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