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The WiKID Blog, musings on two-factor authentication, information security and some other stuff.

dhs-predicts-more-brokerage-attacks

The DHS is joining in on one of my earlier predictions: Brokerage accounts will be increasing targeted in the coming year. According to their post they are tempting accounts because they typically have more money in them. Further, typical anti-fraud transaction analysis doesn't really work because of the infrequency of transfers.

I'm convinced that brokerage accounts and other heavy transactions accounts will need cryptographically secure transaction authentication in addition to session and host/mutual authentication.

features-and-functionality-for-consumer-acceptable

Anton Chuvakin posts a response to this post about the PayPal tokens. These posts point out a number of desired features for broad-based consumer roll-out of two-factor authentication, such as the hope for a single token to work everywhere. but fail to mention that token won't stop phishing (one of the commenters does point that out).

drive-by-pharming-seen-in-the-wild

Symantec has spotted Drive-by pharming attacks in the wild

repurcussions-of-data-loss-at-ohio-university

It's a long standing joke that no matter where you move, your alumni association can find you. That may change after OU's experience with their data breaches as chronicled here. Of course, they use your Social Security Number to track you down.

comment-status

As with every blog out there, we've been battling comment and trackback spam. I had turned off comments altogether, but now have turned them back on. Comments are still protected by WiKID Strong Authentication, but you can add a comment anonymously. Here's how to do it:

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