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two-factor-authentication-needed-to-protect

I blogged a long time ago about how social engineers got Paris Hilton's address book from T-Mobile. Now we learn that Paris is allegedly got the password to Lindsey Lohan's Blackberry:

This cyber fued between the girls started last month, when Page Six ran an item that indicated the password to Lindsay's Blackberry had been leaked. Her rep told Page Six people were sending "disgusting and very mean messages that everyone thought were coming from Lindsay. They weren't. We now have her lawyers looking into it. Some people think Paris may have been involved because the wording of the messages sounds very familiar."
Of course, unlike the Sidekick, getting the password to a Blackberry does you no good unless you also have possession of the device. More than likely, they got hold of here email password.

two-factor-for-the-cloud

I'm back from my many summer travels and hope to have some time to do some posting. However, some new customers are keeping us a bit busy, so don't get your hopes up. Not that you would.

two-factor-how-to-round-up

Nice hyphenation. :).

two-factor-phish-against-citibank-demonstrates-the

Lance James at Secure Science has screen shots of the phish attack against CitiBank's business site that uses a hardware token one-time password system. You can see them on WaPo's Security Fix Blog.

unofficial-review-of-mutual-authentication-schemes

For some reason, I really enjoyed this impromptu review of image-based "multi-factor authentication". These image-based site authentication tools are sadly mislabeled as two-factor authentication, which is a personal cocktail party tragedy for me:

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