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Senator Urges Social Security Administration Adopt New Authentication Method For Online Accounts

By Matthew Beinart

Friday, October 6th, 2017

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Senator Urges Social Security Administration Adopt New Authentication Method For Online Accounts

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The ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee is urging the Social Security Administration (SSA) to adopt phishing-resistant authentication to ensure the cyber security of its online accounts.Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) sent a letter to SSA’s Acting Commissioner Nancy Berryhill on Thursday, calling on her to move from the current multi-factor authentication to the more secure Universal Second Factor, called U2F.In June, the SSA made multi-factor authentication mandatory for all online accounts to protect against identity theft. However, the emails…

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