The WiKID Blog, musings on two-factor authentication, information security and some other stuff.
better-password-strength-just-one-factordeleteme
Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago
Pete over at Spire Security points out the obvvious(which alluded me):
As far as I can tell, Bruce Schneier's current Wired column, MySpace Passwords Aren't So Dumb, is intended to be taken seriously. The article is supposed to be about how "good" passwords on MySpace are these days, and there isn't a hint of irony in his statement:He also points out that if you're not going to do two-factor authentication, then don't worry about long passwords. If any data is important enough or vulnerable enough to require a strong and therefore annoying password policy, use two-factor authentication."But seriously, passwords are getting better."I am at a loss to explain how he can come to this conclusion when every single one of the 34,000 passwords he analyzed were stolen through a phishing attack. What he should have said was: "This shows that a 1-character password (the shortest they harvested) is just as secure as a 32-character password (the longest they harvested)"
blogdrums
Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago
I have had a bad case of the blogdrums, plus we've been busy working on our 3.0 release. We have just opened to the public our 3.0 beta release in an RPM version. So if you want to play around with two-factor authentication and help us out, please download.
great-two-factor-authentication-article-at-cso
Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago
There is a great article on two-factor authentication at CSO Online. The title is misleading, IMO. Here are some of the parts I found interesting:20-000-downloads
Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago
We have crossed the 20,000 download threshold on Sourceforge.net.
1m-was-siphoned-out-of-customers-accounts-via
Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago
According to the BBC, 8 people have been arrested for stealing £1m though the Chip and PIN system at Shell.
"These Pin pads are supposed to be tamper resistant, they are supposed to shut down, so that has obviously failed," said Apacs spokeswoman Sandra Quinn.
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