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That's why we have now 2FA enabled on most external access, VPN included.


Amazing they don't have 2FA on VPN, even if you don't go for yubikey/phone app you could at least require a cert.


> As far as we can tell [...] the phish spam attacker used the main password they'd just stolen to register the person for our VPN and obtain a VPN password...

Requiring admin approval for VPN accounts would have prevented the phisher from getting VPN access to begin with.




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