Sticky Brains!
Here are some great pictures of the sticky brains we gave out at the Interop NY show last week. Ewwww….. Happy Halloween! -Steve
An interesting Web SDK implementation
One of the great things about having a freely available Web SDK is the fun of watching people put it to uses you had never imagined. PhoneFactor SDK user David Spriggs, an employee of a Large University Hospital, thought PhoneFactor was a cool way to offer increasing levels of authentication for various kinds of documents. [...]
PhoneFactor interview from Interop
Our team is at Interop New York this week. Jason Sloderbeck and Evan Conway were interviewed about the product earlier, and the podcast is now live. -Steve
New PhoneFactor release
PhoneFactor Agent 1.1.4 has been released to the world. There have been lots of little improvements and changes in various places, but the bigger enhancements include: One-time bypass – allows an administrator to temporarily disable PhoneFactor auth for a user for one authentication Welcome e-mails – allows administrators to auto-send e-mails to new PhoneFactor users, [...]
PhoneFactor at Interop NY
Some people from the PhoneFactor team are at Interop New York even as we speak. Here’s a brief mention of PhoneFactor by ARN: Service provider Positive Networks is introducing new features for its PhoneFactor two-factor authentication service. The service employs a software agent running on business Windows servers, and when users try to log on, [...]
Vote PhoneFactor!
Having trouble deciding whom to vote for? We here at Positive Networks have a suggestion! PhoneFactor has been nominated for the SC Magazine Awards 2008 (US) in the category of Best Multi- and Second-factor solution. Vote here! There are some big companies in the list. It’d be great to show them that, budgets aside, what [...]
Can I see your credit card, please?
I did a couple of interviews today about PhoneFactor, and both times I spent some time on the difference between software- and hardware-based two-factor authentication. The problem is that sometimes the "something you have" acts more like "something you know." Have you ever shopped at a Lowe’s or Wal-Mart and been asked by the cashier [...]
Preventing mass-harvesting of credentials
Two-factor authentication is good for lots of things, and in particular, (correctly-implemented) two-factor is good for preventing mass credentials harvesting. I was reading ArsTechnica this morning and came across this article about the mass theft of 79000 logins from a Finnish forum. The attack was basically a brute-force dictionary-style attack against the (obviously) weak passwords [...]
PhoneFactor Webinar today
Sorry for the late notice, but a couple of Positive Networks guys are doing a Webinar today in about an hour on PhoneFactor. If you’re interested, register here and heckle them a little for me.
SDK upgrade: ASP.Net
We’ve upgraded the PhoneFactor Web SDK to include support for Microsoft ASP.Net. It’s live on the www.phonefactor.net website. Feel free to drop me a line if there are any questions. Happy PhoneFactoring! -Steve
