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dns-and-mutual-authentication

Once again, Amit Klein has hacked DNS. Once again, we'll say if you are doing high-value web-based transactions, you should consider using Mutual Authentication for HTTPS.

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.

how-to-get-microsoft-esque-security-with-open

I was duly impressed with the recent ComputerWorld article about how Microsoft fends off 100,000 attacks per month. That is a lot of attacks! The article doesn't mention what Microsoft has spent on security, but my guess is: More than your company's revenues. So what is a poor company to do? Like wine, it is easy find a good bottle of $30 wine, the challenge is finding a good bottle of $8 wine (and were talking magnum). Luckily, thanks to open source software and the many tools built into Linux, even the stingiest of companies can have good security.

FTC-alledges-fraud-at-payment-processor-Interbillpay.com

Courtesy InfoWorld

running-the-wikid-two-factor-authentication-server

One of our users just provided us with documentation on how to convert the WiKID Strong Authentication server rpms to .debs for Ubuntu. This is great news for the many fans of Ubuntu. We will include as much of this code as possible in the 3.2 release to make it even easier to use alien to convert the rpms.

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