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Cloud Security and Two-factor authentication
Posted by: admin 14 years, 2 months ago
We've recently partnered with VM Racks, Inc a secure virtual hosting specialist for their HIPAA-compliant ESX VMware Hosting service. There are three take-aways from this news:
Traditional two-factor authentication is dead.
Posted by: admin 14 years, 2 months ago
At Bsides Atlanta last week, Eric Smith (@infosecmafia) and Dave Kennedy (@dave_rel1k) demonstrated a real-time attack against a Juniper SSL-VPN that by-passes the authentication method used including time-bound one-time passcodes. (Dave's post on "Traditional Penetration Testing is DEAD" on their BSidesAtlanta talk inspired my title. ;)
This type of attack against SSL and DNS has been predicted for some time, taking advantage of user's willingness to accept any SSL certificate. Kudos to Eric and Dave for showing how this type of attack combined with a strategically aimed penetration test can really wreak havoc on an enterprise.
A world without static passwords
Posted by: admin 14 years, 2 months ago
I wanted to quickly clarify my brief twitter rant about SMS authentication. This was all started by Chris Wysopal's tweet about Zeus's new mobile MiTM attacks and that "phones are not secure enough for 2 factor". Zeus is now targeting the text messages that banks are using for authenticating transactions.
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