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

more-proof-that-mutual-authentication-is-needed

The number of phishing sites soared in October. Phishers are using bot-nets to create fake domains faster than anti-phishing toolbar vendors can blacklist them. It explains why phishers haven't tried to DDOS the blacklists and it shows that getting users to the correct site via strong mutual authentication is the way to go.

kim-cameron-on-fingerprint-readers

Read the post: Fingerprint charade.

ftp-and-two-factor-tutorial

We've published another how-to on Howtoforge: How to Secure VSFTP with SSL and Two-factor Authentication

garage-door-authentication-they-cannot-steal-what

The Washington Post has an article about garage door openers not working around Quantico due to a denial of service attack by the Marines and consumers wanting to get money from the Marines.

google-authentication

Google released a couple of interesting products (as beta, natch). The first is their hosted email service, which allows enterprises to outsource their mail services to Google.

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