Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP (Getty Images)“All governments lie,” the leftist journalist I.F. Stone once said. Stone wasn’t trying to be provocative, merely pointing out that there’s a pretty basic reason we have a free press in the United States: typically, the government is not a reliable narrator. Governments aren’t inherent liars; they just don’t always have a good reason to tell the public the truth. Sometimes they feel the need to deceive and cover up. That’s what makes a new report from The Intercept, “Truth Cops,” so…

Too many small and medium-size businesses rely on usernames and passwords alone to secure their systems, leaving them vulnerable to cyberattacks that could otherwise be prevented, government officials and cybersecurity chiefs say.Multifactor authentication, in which a login attempt is verified by additional layers of protection such as the use of codes sent by text messages, phone calls or dedicated apps, is a relatively simple defense against hackers. Yet a survey of around 1,400 small and medium businesses globally…