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The WiKID Blog, musings on two-factor authentication, information security and some other stuff.

google-research-on-strong-authentication

Ben Laurie and Eric Sachs from Google's security team have published an article on the Usability of Stronger Authentication Options. This is a very interesting document and it's great to see the large internet players focus on security. Unfortunately, in their list of strong authentication methods they do not include software tokens, which seems to me to be a pretty big oversight. Of course, I'm a bit biased. Here are my thoughts on Ben & Eric's concerns:

computers-to-hand-out-death-penalties

Yet another sign that China will surpass the US in technological expertise: They will soon be using computers to hand out death penalties.

ryanair-adopt-new-security-procedures

The Register tips us off to Ryanair's new security procedures.

more-predictions-for-2006

I already did some predications over on IDWorld. Of course, if I were afraid to fail I would have a real job. Here are more predictions for 2006:

kaspersky-labs-update-on-bank-attacks

Hat tip: Securology.

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