Skip to main content

The WiKID Blog

Viewing posts from January, 2009

phishers-get-50k-in-south-korea

From Chosun.com:

phishers-move-to-europe-but-not-the-dutch

Websense has published a report that says that phishers are increasingly targeting smaller European banks over their larger American cousins. While not scientific, it is interesting.

phishers-targeting-commercial-accounts

Today I receieved a phish that is targeting commercial accounts of BB&T. It's interesting because it will be much harder to do transaction analysis fraud prevention on commercial accounts (same for brokerage accounts) and the email used a pending 'security device' roll-out as the premise for needing the information.

phishing-target-one-time-passwords-in-swedish

Just when I thought the nordic countries would be the last to be phished, the phishers strike. Out-law pointed out an this F-Secure post (go to the bottom of the page):

pingid-releases-signon-com-but-it-is-not-strong

PingID released Signon.com today, which looks like a great addition to the consumer-oriented SSO services available. I take some exception to this quote from PingID CEO Andre Durand about InfoCards

After a user creates an information card on their desktop, they can access SignOn.com and link the card to their account on the site. On subsequent visits, the card is needed for the user to authentication to SignOn.com.
“It’s a form of strong authentication,” says Andre Durand, CEO of Ping Identity.
Now, I don't know as much about InfoCards as I should, but I know it's not strong authentication. What these services need is strong mutual authentication, so that the user is assured that they are going to the correct SSO service. Then, the SSO service needs to get the user to the correct targeted site.

Recent Posts

Archive

2024
2022
2021
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008

Categories

Tags

Authors

Feeds

RSS / Atom