The WiKID Blog, musings on two-factor authentication, information security and some other stuff.
Update your WiKID servers for Spectre and Meltdown
Posted by: root 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Since basically every computer is affected by these bugs, your WiKID server is too. You will need to run 'yum update' to get the latest kernel patches. (And it's a great idea to do this regularly.) Reboot and you should have the fix.
Get your license expiration date from the command line
Posted by: root 4 months, 2 weeks ago
This is from one of our customers that uses Nagios to track license expirations:
Apple's treatment of 32-bit libraries requires a new WiKID token for iOS 11
Posted by: root 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Apple announced that it will no longer support 32-bit libraries or apps. We developed our iPhone WiKID token before there even was a 64-bit encryption library available.
Deloitte and the need for 2FA on Admin accounts
Posted by: root 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited has 263,000 employees. That's an astounding number of people, computers, networks, access points etc, etc. Very hard to keep attackers out of such a vast network with so many needs and uses. It would cost a lot of money to provide 2FA for all those users. It would take a lot of effort to monitor the SIEM events for all those users.
Evading Microsoft ATA > Another reason to use 2FA for Windows Admins
Posted by: root 8 months, 1 week ago
Nikhil "SamratAshok" Mittal has a great series of posts on how to avoid detection by Microsoft's Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA).
Recent Posts
- Update your WiKID servers for Spectre and Meltdown
- Get your license expiration date from the command line
- Apple's treatment of 32-bit libraries requires a new WiKID token for iOS 11
- Deloitte and the need for 2FA on Admin accounts
- Evading Microsoft ATA > Another reason to use 2FA for Windows Admins
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