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Why Knowledge Based Authentication Is Useless

Knowledge Based Authentication – using information that only you know – used to be a very popular method for validating that you are you.  Examples of this are when a customer service agent asks you for your birth date, last four of your social or where you were born.  The credit bureaus even sell that […]

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Shorts: Syria Hacks Israel ; Games Steal FB Credentials ; Evans Hotels Announces Breach

Computer hackers likely working for the Syrian regime and Hezbollah have managed to penetrate the computers of Israeli and American activists working with the Syrian opposition, exposing sensitive contacts between the sides. Al-Akhbar, a newspaper serving as Hezbollah’s mouthpiece in Lebanon, published a series of articles over the weekend purporting to divulge correspondence between Mendi […]

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Hackers Can Be Hacked If Their Security Is Bad

Hacking Team, an Italian company that sells hacking tools to the FBI and DEA, as well as less friendly governments such as Sudan, was hacked this week.  The hackers stole about 400 gigabytes of internal emails, financial documents, source code and other goodies.  The hackers quickly published the data that was hacked, presumably to embarrass […]

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