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

more-on-layered-authentication

Ok, I slagged the concept of 'layered' authentication as a marketing neologism in my response to Eric Nolan's identity predictions for 2006. I was overcome by prediction hysteria. I've got to calm down...

more-on-online-brokerage-fraud

The Washington Post has an article today about the the increase in online brokerage fraud.

E-Trade Financial Corp., the nation's fourth-largest online broker, said last week that "concerted rings" in Eastern Europe and Thailand caused their customers $18 million in losses in the third quarter alone.
To put that into perspective, E-Trade earned $128.1 million on revenue of $488.7 in their fiscal fourth quarter.

more-on-targeted-phishing-attacks

A nice round up of article over at Infoworld, which links to a Washington Post article on virtual credit cards.

wikid-systems-in-trouble-again-for-bribing

Today it was revealed that selected bloggers that include positive mentions of WiKID Systems' two-factor authentication system were promised that could potentially receive a new-to-them laptop for their efforts. The laptops were described as Dell Latitude CPx with a screaming fast in-its-day P11600mhxz chip that are currently stacked unused in the closet and a dual-boot Thinkpad T23 with a persnickity display and built-in Snarkiness (TM) for the best blogging experience.

15-percent-of-corporate-pcs-have-keystroke-loggers

According to David Aucsmith, architect and CTO, Security Business & Technology Unit at Microsoft, 15% of corporate PCs have key stroke loggers.

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