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etrade-to-offer-zero-liability-accounts

Kudos to ETrade for offering a "zero liability" account. I suspect this is an attempt to foil my prediction that brokerage accounts will be increasingly targeted by phishers. (Though, to be honest, they were getting off to a good start in Q4.)

Brokerage accounts are tempting. Most people (if they have brokerage accounts) have more in their stock accounts than in their bank account or savings. It's probably harder to determine if a payment leaving the account is fraudulent. With bank accounts, phishers target a larger number of users for smaller dollars amounts. With brokerage accounts, phishers aim for bigger dollars. From the BusinessWeek article:

comment-status

As with every blog out there, we've been battling comment and trackback spam. I had turned off comments altogether, but now have turned them back on. Comments are still protected by WiKID Strong Authentication, but you can add a comment anonymously. Here's how to do it:

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).

anton-chuvakin-on-roi

I was fixing to post on some of the ROI posts floating around, with my usual usual dainty prose. But Anton Chuvakin did a much better job than I could - though it appears he has a ringer on his team.

banks-need-strong-authentication-desparately

Forrester Research is urging banks to adopt additional security to fight phishing and other forms of fraud, including strong authentication.

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