May 2012
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UFC.COM’S SECURITY BREACH, HACKERS RELEASE...
On Sunday, January 22nd, UFC.com was hacked. UFC.com was rerouted to the site UGnazi.com several times. Dana White, the UFC’s president, called the site’s organizers terrorists at the “UFC on Fox 2” press conference. The hacking of UFC.com is said to be the result of Dana White and the company’s support of SOPA and PIPA. The SOPA and PIPA bills are aimed at stopping online piracy.
The...
April 2012
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Verizon Reports Data Breach Count Rises While...
With the number of data breaches on the rise why are the amount of records stolen dropping?
Verizon recently released a report called the 2011 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) in which it combines caseload information with the United States Secret Service. Although the number of records breached has dropped from a record high of 361 million in 2008 to 144 million in 2009 and even lower...
March 2012
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How to Prevent Fraud Using Out Of Band...
Over the past few decades, fraud has increased dramatically with the use and advance of technology. Hackers fraudulently access confidential data, steal the information and sell it online. Hackers can also sometimes utilize that information to gain access to other information sources to cause even more damage. In some cases, thieves fraudulently identify themselves as the hacked users and use...
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Strong Authentication Helps Doctors Monitor...
Doctors will be performing more house calls by computer or by phone as technology advances and as the demand for available doctors grow. This is good news if you are sick, don’t need urgent care and you don’t want to wait for an appointment just to speak with your doctor. With many doctors overbooked, patients in some metro areas such as Boston and New York often have to wait over 2 months to...
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How to Relieve Healthcare Breaches Through...
Over 385 healthcare data breaches have been reported since September of 2009 on the HHS.gov website. Reported by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, any breach of over 500 individual’s records is required by the HITECH Act to be posted on their website. Although this data alone is astonishing by taking a closer look we can easily see how a more secure method of data protection can be...
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Zappos.com Hacked: How Data Breaches Affect Us
The latest big ecommerce site to be victim of a cyber attack was Zappos.com by a hacker who accessed a part of the company’s internet network through one of its servers in Kentucky, CEO Tony Hsieh said in an email to employees January 15, 2012. The data breach compromised customer account information such as billing addresses, names, email addresses, phone numbers, passwords in encrypted form,...
February 2012
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Amazon Protects Against Fraud with Multi Factor...
Amazon.com has not only become the largest online bookstore, but is also a multinational ecommerce company. The company has been spreading its reach like branches of a river while supplying goods to countries across the world. Amazon.com started off by profiting from being an online book brokering system and later offering many products. Amazon.com grew its business through online associates in...
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What is the Future of Security with Two-Factor...
Although the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was created in 1996 it was not always meant to secure the privacy of electronic health records. Originally HIPAA was created for paper health record privacy, before HIPAA there was no security standard implemented to protect patient privacy. As time moves forward so does technology and in the past decade recent advances in...
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FFIEC Authentication Guidance Update: The Need for...
The Federal Financial Institutions Examinations Council’s (FFIEC) guidance for financial institutions, which was first issued in 2005, supports the use of strong authentication processes to protect the identities of customer identities and information during transactions that occurred online.
The FFIEC revisited these guidelines and addresses several areas because of the increasing number of...
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Dont Give Attackers a Chance By Leveraging Strong...
Evolution and adaptation are the topics of discussion when it comes to data breaches, but why is it that we are growing or changing for incidents that have already happened? Is it really easier to react than it is to be proactive in enhancing an organization’s security? After a company loses confidential documents, whether to data breaches or careless efforts, most organizations only start to...
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What is the Future of Security with Two-Factor...
What is the future of security and how are we protected from the advancing technologies of hackers and man in the middle attacks? There are believers that think two factor authentications is the future of security measures and there are also people that think that the technology behind two factor authentication has been proven to be vulnerable and that it will become obsolete and give away to a...
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Why You Need Two Factor Authentication Security
Major institutions in almost every industry vertical are updating their data storage and record management systems to provide access to information over a network or across the internet. Although security is present it is not always as effective as it seems, even over a secure network.
Usernames and passwords are no longer enough and have not been considered a high form of security for quite some...
January 2012
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Securing your future with Out of Band Two Factor...
For decades two-factor authentication has been lurking in the shadows. Most people never even realized they were performing the process of authenticating with two factors to access almost any secure information over the web. Although as 2012 approaches, we are starting to see this technology adopted by many businesses and it is more people understand the security behind two factor authentications...
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Hackers, Mobile Technology and Social Media Site...
Many organizations are responding to the increased popularity of mobile devices and social media with increases in security staffing. Security professionals are most concerned about targeted attacks, external hackers and insider threats. Mobile computing, social media and internet technologies make the security professional’s jobs much more challenging.
According to reports, nearly 50 percent of...
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Two-Factor Authentication in our Daily Lives –...
Most people never even realize they have used two-factor authentication almost every day of their lives. In actuality everyone has used the process for identifying themselves and continue to use it day in and day out. You may be asking yourself, “How could I have used two-factor authentication everyday without being aware of it”? Maybe not realizing it but every time you access the ATM you are...
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Tokenless Two Factor Authentication – More Secure...
Are you or your organization re-evaluating its use of SecurID tokens following the RSA breach? After the March attack on RSA, where hackers stole information later used in an attack on U.S. defense contractor Lockheed Marin, RSA was forced to offer replacement SecurID keys to all its tens of millions of customers. The recent data breach at RSA security is encouraging IT professionals to...
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Tokenless Two Factor Authentication – More Secure...
Are you or your organization re-evaluating its use of SecurID tokens following the RSA breach? After the March attack on RSA, where hackers stole information later used in an attack on U.S. defense contractor Lockheed Marin, RSA was forced to offer replacement SecurID keys to all its tens of millions of customers. The recent data breach at RSA security is encouraging IT professionals to...
December 2011
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What is the Future of Security with Two-Factor...
What is the future of security and how are we protected from the advancing technologies of hackers and man in the middle attacks? There are believers that think two factor authentications is the future of security measures and there are also people that think that the technology behind two factor authentication has been proven to be vulnerable and that it will become obsolete and give away to a...
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Government Regulations Demand Higher...
As we start to settle into this new decade government regulations are demanding higher forms of authentication security for many industries. Many businesses in the financial, medical and educational industries are not using properly secured solutions for identifying users. Data breaches have become regular news in technology and security media for a long time, recently the national media has...
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HIPAA Security Rule Requires Strong Authentication...
Privacy of confidential data starts with the authentication process for accessing protected information. With industries such as healthcare there are government regulations put in place to protect a patient’s privacy. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act known as HIPAA for short was put in place in 1996 and provides privacy and security rules as a standard for security in the...
November 2011
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Phishing with the Man-in-the-Middle for Two-Factor...
What is a man in the middle attack (MITM)? Imagine this, an attacker puts up a fake bank website and entices users to that website. The user types in his or her password, and the attacker in turn uses that information to access the bank’s real website. If this is done correctly and discretely, the user will never realize that he or she isn’t at the bank’s website. The attacker then disconnects the...
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Could A One Time Password Already Be Securing Your...
Technology affects every aspect of our life, especially our security. Luckily there is always new technology being created to help keep our lives more secure. As our lives become digitized it seems that more and more sensitive information is being added to databases connected to networks or accessible from the web. This raises a red flag to anyone who has been affected by identity theft or...
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Two Factor Authentications Future in Security
For years two-factor authorization continues to be lurking in the shadows. Most people never even understood they were doing the operation of authenticating by using two aspects to access secure information online. Although as 2012 approaches, we are starting to notice this technology adopted by numerous businesses and there are more people realize the security associated with 2 factor...
October 2011
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Two Factor Authentications →
TwoFactorAuthentications.com provides information about two-factor authentication solutions including security technology involved with the process.
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What is Multi-Factor Authentication?
Multi-Factor authentication, or sometimes called strong authentication, is an extension of two-factor authentication. Multi-factor authentication involves two or more factors whereas two factor authentication only involves exactly two factors. There are three basic “factors” in existing authentication methodologies. These “factors” would be something the user knows, something the user has and...
