Mobile Devices Key To Facebook's New Log-In Approval Feature

Facebook is implementing a new opt-in, two-factor verification security feature they are calling log-in approval. The new feature will require users to enter a unique, one time code, which Facebook will send via SMS whenever a user tries to access his or her account from a new and/or unrecognized...

Facebook Adds Two-Factor Authentication

Social networking giant Facebook announced on Tuesday that it was introducing a two-factor security feature that will make user accounts harder to hijack. The announcement was part of a group of security enhancements by Facebook that includes improved secure HTTP features and social reporting too...

Comodo Says Two More Registration Authorities Compromised

Officials at Comodo have acknowledged that an additional two registration authorities affiliated with the company have been compromised in the wake of the high-profile attack on the company that was disclosed last week. However, no forged certificates were issued as a result of the new attacks. I...

HBGary CEO Speaks Out On Anonymous Hack

Greg Hoglund, CEO of HBGary, admits that lackluster security at his company played a central role in the breach that led to the release of some 50,000 company emails, but also disputes common understanding and reported details of the hack and the group behind it, going so far as to say there was...

RSA Warns Customers Of Targeted Attacks In Wake of Hack

RSA, the security division of EMC Corp. has warned customers to be on the lookout for targeted attacks, including suspicious messages and links sent over social media networks in the wake of a sophisticated attack that spilled confidential information about the workings of the company’s SecurID...

Greg Hoglund Discusses HBGary Mishap

Greg Hoglund, CTO of HBGary, admits that lackluster security played a central role in the breach that led to the release of some 50,000 company emails, but also disputes common understanding and reported details of the hack, going so far as to say there was actually no hack at all. In an intervie...

After hack, RSA Release Open Letter to RSA Customers !

Just now Top security firm RSA Security revealed by extremely sophisticated hack, Read complete Story here - Now, RSA Release Open Letter to RSA Customers, as given below : Like any large company, EMC experiences and successfully repels multiple cyber attacks on its IT infrastructure every day...

Top security firm RSA Security revealed by extremely sophisticated hack !

Top security firm RSA Security revealed on Thursday that it's been the victim of an "extremely sophisticated" hack. The company said in a note posted on its website that the intruders succeeded in stealing information related to the company's SecurID two-factor authentication products. SecurID ad...

RSA Hack Yields SecurID Secrets

RSA Security, a division of EMC Corp. has admitted that it was the victim of a sophisticated attack that resulted in the theft of secrets related to its SecurID two-factor authentication product. The disclosure came in a blog post by RSA chief Art Coviello on Thursday. Coviello said that the...

India to Increase Phone Banking Security Starting Next Month !

Starting with January 1st, 2011, Indian banks will require an additional security code in order to authorise phone banking transactions, according to regulatory guidelines issued by the Reserve Bank of India RBI. Known as one-time passwords OTP, these codes are part of what is known as two-factor...

Internal Memo Outlines Gawker's Security Plan

After a hack of systems belonging to online publishing giant Gawker Media that yielded more than one million passwords, the online media company’s chief technology officer has announced new defense strategies aimed at placating their users and preventing further humiliating data breaches. Gawker...

Google Adds Two-Factor Authentication to Apps Accounts

Google has added a two-factor authentication mechanism to the login procedure for its Google Apps offerings, hoping that the addition will help cut down on the amount of fraudulent activity on these accounts. The way that Google has chosen to approach the problem of two-factor authentication is...

Allow user accounts to require two-factor authentication using RFC 4226

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for JIRA Server. Using JIRA Cloud? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-20999. panel New feature request. In light of the recent security hack at Apache, it might be prudent for JIRA to provide some more secure...

Allow user accounts to require two-factor authentication using RFC 4226

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for JIRA Cloud. Using JIRA Server? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-20999. panel New feature request. In light of the recent security hack at Apache, it might be prudent for JIRA to provide some more secure...

Allow user accounts to require two-factor authentication using RFC 4226

New feature request. In light of the recent security hack at Apache, it might be prudent for JIRA to provide some more secure options for user authentication. One candidate is two-factor authentication using the RFC 4226 OATH/HOTP|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOTP standard. This requires the user...

Here's How to Fix Online Banking Fraud

Guest editorial by Roel Schouwenberg Over the last few months, there’s been quite a lot of news chatter around Banker Trojans emptying out online bank accounts of small businesses in the U.S. Today, I was reading one of such stories on Brian Krebs’ site. After reading that story I came across...

Strong Authentication Has Been Weakened

Fraudsters have started to raid user accounts by beating strong two-factor authentication methods with Trojan-based, man-in-the-browser attacks, said Gartner Research. Read the full article. Help Net Security...

Check Point response to the "Evil Maid" attack

Symptoms Check Point Full Disk Encryption is not vulnerable to the "Evil Maid" attack. Solution Full technical details of the "Evil Maid" attack Check Point Full Disk Encryption is not vulnerable to the "Evil Maid" attack, as this particular program specifically targets the True Crypt boot code,...

Eugene Kaspersky: My Thoughts on Internet Anonymity

There seems to be quite a loud response to what I thought was a rather simple idea. In this post, I am going to go over the main points – somewhere when I have more time I’ll share my ideas in detail so people could see exactly what I am proposing. 1. Common users are NOT anonymous for police and...

Modern Banker Malware Undermines Two-Factor Authentication

Once pitched as an additional layer of security for E-banking transactions, two-factor authentication is slowly becoming an easy to bypass authentication process, to which cybercriminals have successfully adapted throughout the last couple of years. Read the full story zdnet.com. Also see this MI...