So my company decided to migrate office suite and email etc to Microsoft365. Whatever. But for 2FA login they decided to disable the option to choose “any authenticator” and force Microsoft Authenticator on the (private) phones of both employees and volunteers. Is there any valid reason why they would do this, like it’s demonstrably safer? Or is this a battle I can pick to shield myself a little from MS?

  • AtariDump@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    One requires the user to go to a bad page and get a spoofed 2FA code so the bad guy can log in.

    Do you know how hard that is? Not worth it for 99% of hacks.

    The other requires that the user read off their six digit code on their device.

    Trivial easy since they already have the user’s password.

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      6 months ago

      It requires the bad guy to go to the page and ask the user to enter the code the bad guy gets

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        6 months ago

        How does the bad guy get to the page?

        Then how does he get the user to enter in that code into their mobile device?