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including-annual-average-loss-expectancy-in-npv

People ask me what I do on a blog, like they expect that I tell people about my bowel movements or something. I tell them that it gives me an outlet to proselytize about two-factor authentication, post things that don't belong on a corporate marketing site and throw up half-baked thoughts without the pressure of writing a full-blown white paper. This post is goes under the last category.

drive-by-pharming-seen-in-the-wild

Symantec has spotted Drive-by pharming attacks in the wild

dns-and-mutual-authentication

Once again, Amit Klein has hacked DNS. Once again, we'll say if you are doing high-value web-based transactions, you should consider using Mutual Authentication for HTTPS.

features-and-functionality-for-consumer-acceptable

Anton Chuvakin posts a response to this post about the PayPal tokens. These posts point out a number of desired features for broad-based consumer roll-out of two-factor authentication, such as the hope for a single token to work everywhere. but fail to mention that token won't stop phishing (one of the commenters does point that out).

dhs-predicts-more-brokerage-attacks

The DHS is joining in on one of my earlier predictions: Brokerage accounts will be increasing targeted in the coming year. According to their post they are tempting accounts because they typically have more money in them. Further, typical anti-fraud transaction analysis doesn't really work because of the infrequency of transfers.

I'm convinced that brokerage accounts and other heavy transactions accounts will need cryptographically secure transaction authentication in addition to session and host/mutual authentication.

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