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11 Top tips for two-factor authentication

For a long time I have been meaning to pull together some of the top tips when setting up two-factor authentication. I expect this will be a moving target. Obviously, two-factor authentication is central to your network deployment, so even if that PCI QSA is breathing down your throat, take some time to do a bit of planning!

PCI compliance in the local news

The Atlanta-area transit authority was forced to accept only cash due to software errors it blamed on their efforts to meet PCI compliance.

WiKID support for Cloudstack

We're pleased to announce the release of a prototype authentication plugin for Cloudstack that will add WiKID Two-factor authentication to the administrator login. The jar is available for download at our Sourceforge site. The license is GPL. We have very brief installation instructions as well.

I know something that isn't two-factor authentication

William Edwards wrote a post entitled "I know someone whose 2-factor phone authentication was hacked…" about a friend whose bank account was drained by fraudsters. His bank relied on a dial-back system. The attackers social-engineered BT to re-route the phone calls. This attack is eerily similar to the recent attack on Cloudflare, which started with an attack on an AT&T account.

Article in [IN]Secure magazine: Adding two-factor to Google apps

You can download the latest [In]Secure Magazine Issue 34 in pdf format here:  net-security.org/insecuremag.php

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