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SMS, Trojans and Two-factor authentication
Posted by: admin 11 years, 5 months ago
I've often said that SMS is a weak basis for two-factor authentication. It is unencrypted and unreliable. It is too easy to take over someone's account. I was reminded of it today by this puff piece on American Banker - an ad for RSA's anti-trojan services. Obviously, RSA sells anti-trojan services and two-factor authentication. We sell two-factor authentication as well, but not SMS-based. (We use software tokens that use asymmetric (public/private) keys.)
HTML5 Token
Posted by: admin 11 years, 6 months ago
For the record, our open-source HTML5 token was released in 2010 and is available on our sourceforge site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikid-twofactor/files/HTML5_Token_Client/.
SSH key management a potential risk
Posted by: admin 11 years, 6 months ago
We've long said that while we love SSH, SSH key management is a weak point, especially if you need to meet compliance requirements such as PCI. Now Charles Kolodgy of IDC is saying the same thing:
Reporting via our API
Posted by: admin 11 years, 6 months ago
Reporting is a fact of life. And to be honest, good reporting is good for security. In this post, we will take a look at the reports you can generate via the wAuth API to help monitor and manage your two-factor authentication installation.
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