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Exploring Two-Factor Authentication Risks and Cyber Threats

Sep 22, 2009 •

Anthony Pell

1 min read

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Schneier talks about two new attacks he is seeing to two-factor authentication. Back in 2005, I wrote about the failure of two-factor authentication to mitigate banking fraud: Man-In-The-Middle and a Trojan attack. Read on to See how two-factor authentication doesn't solve anything? In the first case, the attacker can pass the ever-changing part of the password to the bank along with the never-changing part. And in the second case, the attacker is relying on the user to log in.

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