The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is promoting the use of FIDO authentication technology to help guard against cyberattacks during the upcoming US election. The organization is particularly concerned with phishing, noting that such methods are deployed in 78 percent of cyber-espionage incidents. Read the article.


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