If you’ve been following Authentication related discussions, you know that a lot of the tactical focus is on adding additional authentication factors to the base username/password login mechanism as a way of making it more secure. This is particularly true in consumer facing applications, as brought into stark contrast by the Mat Honan hack episode. [...]
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The Epic Hacking of Mat Honan and Our Identity Challenge
Wired has the kind of article that will make all of us leading highly digitized lives (is that the right term?) wake up in a cold sweat. While the title – How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking – may strike many as sensationalist, the article does a good job of [...]
