two-factor authentication

Pierluigi Paganini June 13, 2013
The business behind a hacked email account

Which is the commercial value of a hacked email account in the underground? How cybercriminals use a compromised email account? Why do they have to hit me? Which is the commercial value of a hacked email account in the underground? Brian Krebs has recently published a valuable post on commercial value for a hacked email account, […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 02, 2013
iCloud two-factor protection, security flaw or deliberate choice?

iCloud could not properly protect the user’s data despite the implementation of a two-factor protection. Millions of users access to the iCloud to store their data such as photos, music and documents and Apple has tried recently to improve their security introducing in March a two factor authentication system … Do users really know the security mechanisms that […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 29, 2013
Two-factor authentication, necessary but not sufficient to be safe

Adoption of a two-factor authentication process is necessary  to increase the robustness for authentication processes, but security is a process that must be cured at 360 degrees. Twitter finally deployed two-factor authentication to improve security of a user’s account, this is the response of popular social network to the various incidents occurred to some of […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 24, 2012
To be or not to be… This is Authentication

Article published on The Malta Indipendent Ron Kelson, Pierluigi Paganini, Fabian Martin, David Pace, Benjamin Gittins We use the Internet on a daily basis to access numerous services available on the web, most of which require a process of identification and validation of a user’s identity, a process commonly defined as Authentication. As Wikipedia states, the […]