Archive for September, 2007
Two Factor Authentication (2FA) – Opportunity and Pitfalls
In this post I will describe the need for Two Factor Authentication (2FA), the problems with existing 2FA, , and some of the emerging approaches to introduce stronger authentication methods – in particular, the opportunity to use mobile technology to avoid the hardware costs and introduce much stronger two channel protection. Some people might start [...]
2FA demo in Cambridge on Wed 5th Sep
Two Factor Authentication systems have come under fire recently from hackers and researchers for a number of drawbacks and vulnerabilities: Man-in-the-middle attacks are being successfully used against Banks using 2FA Reports of more than 20% of Hardware tags are lost or broken Expensive – and cumbersome for consumers PIN codes can still be stolen by [...]