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The keys-to-the-kingdom/Authentication-in-depth

The New York Times has an article with new details about the Google attack.  The key take-aways:

Best Practices

There were a number of tweets yesterday about "best practices".  This took me back to Adam Shostack's post at New School on his best practice: Think.  Now I am throwing my hat in the ring with:

Three Ways to Deter Cyber Crime

Our partners at Online Banking Solutions have an article at Bank Systems and Technology:  Three Ways to Deter Cyber Crime.

Avivah Litan on Two-factor authentication

Gartner analyst Avivah Litan has released a new report on how attackers are circumventing the protections provided by two-factor authentication systems for online banking. I have not purchased nor read the document, just the summaries that have been released.

The Conflicting Incentives at the heart of the Twitter breach

Techcrunch has a detailed post on how Hacker Croll broke into Twitter.  Read the whole article. Here is a summary of the attack:

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