Configuring authentication for OSPF or RIP is pretty straightforward under Zebra. You have the choice between clear-text passwords and MD5 hashes (Example 9-25). However, consider that this contributes to CPU load.Example 9-25. Configuring MD5 Authentication for Zebra OSPFcastor-ospfd# show running-configCurrent configuration:!hostname castor-ospfdpassword 8 4DwwIFdKLWvU.enable password 8 dV8x4Mhx
itmanagement.earthweb.com, January 05, 2009 - Authentication is the last thing on security professionals’ to-do lists these days. The big security worries are trendy things like mobile devices, data leaks, applications security and Web 2.0. Authentication is yesterday’s problem, and it’s been fixed.
That’s the conventional wisdom, at least, but it’s a myth. Despite a flurr
SC Magazine, December 02, 2008 -
Cryptocard has launched the CD-1 credit card display token.
It is a traditional payment card that combines Cryptocard's technology to produce secure one-time passwords using two-factor authentication technology.
Designed for both banking and retail applications, it reduces the number of devices that need to distributed to customers, an
SC Magazine , December 02, 2008 -
Cryptocard has launched the CD-1 credit card display token.
It is a traditional payment card that combines Cryptocard's technology to produce secure one-time passwords using two-factor authentication technology.
Designed for both banking and retail applications, it reduces the number of devices that need to distributed to customers, a
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A comprehensive and practical guide to PAM for Linux: how modules work and how to implement them, covering 11 common modules, and installation of third-party offerings. Also covers developing your own modules in C. First this book explains how Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) simplify and standardize authentication in Linux. It shows in detail how PAM works and how it
How to Impersonate the Original Caller without Windows AuthenticationWhen using non-windows authentication like Certificate Authentication or username authentication, if you need to impersonate the original caller (if it has windows account) or a service account you have following 2 options1. Using the S4U Kerberos extensions - For this you must grant your process account the "Act as part of th
Mastro Auctions forwarded the following email on 11/23/2008 7:19:52 P.M. Eastern Standard TimeAnother Level of Authentication for "Legends of the Gridiron"...100% Photomatched!A Word about Authentication:Mastro Auctions provides its own Letters of Authenticity for all of the game used equipment that appears in the company's auctions. Additionally, it's significant to note that virtually every one
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ClassifEye, a leading developer of secure fingerprint authentication technology, announced today that Cashpor India, one of India's leading microfinance institutions ("MFI") has adopted ClassifEye's innovative camera-phone-based transactions and authentication solution. This will help to facilitate broader financial inclusion, enabling Cashpor to broaden its customer base and allow their agent-ser
More then a year ago I wrote a post where I explained how to set up secure digest authentication for Squid proxy server so passwords would not be sent in plain text to the server when authenticating.
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This file "/etc/ldap.conf" is the 1st file that has to be modified as this is the file that tells the system which ldap server to authenticate too.
host yourdomain.combase dc=yourdomain,dc=comuri ldap://yourdomain.com/ldap_version 3rootbinddn cn=Manager,dc=yourdomain,dc=comscope subtimelimit 5bind_timelimit 5nss_reconnect_tries 2pam_login_attribute uidpam_member_attribute gidpam_password
This is a very well explanation to fix user authentication problem on windows Vista or windows 2000. Here is the simplified step by step to do it. On my Vista machine I opened the local policy editor (You can find this under administrative tools in the control panel).
Browse to Local Policies -> Security Options
Looking at:
Network [...]
Htaccess Authentication Manager is a simple application to assist you with managing users for Apache directory based authentication. Use the navigation menu above to add new users and update existing users.Download HTauthman 1.0.5
itproportal.com, October 09, 2008 - In support of National Identity Fraud Prevention Week, CryptoCard is offering firms a free two-factor authentication service for up to 200 users until the end of the year.
The idea is that firms hand in their "passwords" and CryptoCard "upgrade" the passwords to two-factor authentication.
According to Neil Hollister, the firm
IT Director, October 08, 2008 - CRYPTOCard, a leading developer of two-factor authentication (2FA) technology for multi-vendor environments, today announces a ‘Password Amnesty', calling on UK businesses to hand-in their obsolete single passwords and replace them with a free two-factor managed authentication service for up to 200 users, per business. The initiative, launched i
I recently ran into a problem on one of our websites where users’ authentication was timing out before the amount of time I had set in the configuration. I was using ASP.NET forms authentication with the timeout set to 30 minutes and sliding expiration set to true. After some investigation this turned out to be a two part problem.
This first cause I found was that the sliding
Here is the sample code to do Form Authentication in Asp.net 2.0.<authentication mode="Forms"><forms name="APMSAuth"defaultUrl="~\LoginSuccess.aspx"path="/"loginUrl="login.aspx"protection="All"timeout="30" /></authentication>
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One of the most commonly neglected security vulnerabilities associated with typical online service providers lies in the password reset process. By being based on a small number of questions whose answers often can be derived using data-mining techniques, or even guessed, many sites are open to attack. To exacerbate the problem, many sites pose the very same questions to users wishing to reset the
CryptoCard, a leading developer of two-factor authentication (2FA) technology today announced that Dubai Bank, a member of the Dubai Group, is to use its 2FA products to increase security for its corporate account customers.
Finextra.com, September 04, 2008 - "When we updated our website and our online channel platforms last year as part of the process of making Dubai Bank a ful
We discussed there that HTTP Basic Authentication has a number of drawbacks, and that you can avoid those with PHP-based authentication.The PHPLib features sophisticated classes for handling user authentication and permission management. The PHPLib authenticates sessions; thus it depends on the Session class. On those pages in which you need authentication, the following page_open() call shou
DigitalIDNews - Tallahassee,FL,USA, August 25, 2008 - Kansas City Life Insurance Company reports that after a year with their Cryptocard authentication system they have found a system that works the way they ...
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Cryptocard technology helps Kansas City Life get the handle on a thorny access problem
Dark Reading.com, August 22, 2008 - Kansas City Life Insurance Co. needed a two-factor authentication solution for its employees, and it found one. Unfortunately, though, it wasn't the last time the company found itself looking for authentication technology.
Founded in 1895, Kansas City Life Insur
IT Security News, August 21, 2008 - Founded in 1895, Kansas City Life Insurance sells individual life, annuity, and group insurance policies. The bulk of the company’s 500-person staff works at the company's Kansas City headquarters, while a smattering of employees are stationed in various regional offices servicing more than 1,400 agents which serve its 500,000 customers.
As the
Et hoida kokku Windows-i litsentside ostmise pealt, saab SharePoint-i kasutajate hoidlana kasutada ka ASP.NET vormipõhist autentimist (FBA - Form Based Authentication). Kuigi see seab hiljem SharePoint-i kasutamisele mõningad piirangud, on see näiteks avalike saitide korral suht kasulik asi.
FBA seadistamine pole just kõige lihtsam tegemine, kuivõrd paigaldamise ja seadistamise käigus võib
Digica Solutions is the latest Canadian VAR to join vendor's North American Partner Program
itbusiness.ca, August 15, 2008 - CryptoCard, an Ottawa, Ont.-based two-factor authentication (2FA) technology solution vendor, has named Caledon, Ont.-based Digica Solutions as the latest VAR to join its North American Partner Program.
The CryptoCard Partner Program has been developed to serve
In India whenever you call a bank or a credit card company from your mobile phone an interactive voice response (IVR) system will shower you with a pool of questions for validation of your identity. It takes a lot of time and it is very frustrating to go through the process everytime. Now the banks are willing to take the step forward by introducing the Voice Authentication system in the near futu
By default, connection via TCP/IP is disabled. And for authentication IDENT method is used. Please refer to the PostgreSQL Administrator's Guide..
To enable TCP/IP connections, edit the file /etc/postgresql//main/postgresql.conf
Locate the line #tcpip_socket = false and change it to tcpip_socket = true.
By default, the user credentials are not set for MD5 client authentication. So, first it
Recently the folks at Gmail announced via their blog that they have been working closely with PayPal and eBay in an attempt to reduce the number of phishing attacks and the associated collateral damage. By using industry email authentication technologies such as DomainKeys and DomainKeys Identified Email (DKIM), they now authenticate every message sent PayPal [...]
Anthony Moore, an IT Manager at LivePoint, provided me with some more understanding of the root causes of yesterday's demo machine errors.
Each machine in a domain has a password, (exactly like...
I have been giving weekly webinars using a demo environment that mimics 3 SharePoint farms (2 x MOSS 2007, 1 x SPS 2003). While prepping for tomorrow's demo I ran into some very strange SharePoint...
Technology’s pervasive reach and society’s mounting dependence upon it has weighty implications for evidence jurisprudence. As individuals continue to use the Internet as a means of commerce, personal expression, and social interaction, the Internet has become an increasingly important source of information pertaining to those personal and business transactions. When...
When a particular resource has been protected using basic authentication, Apache sends a 401 Authentication Required header with the response to the request, in order to notify the client that user credentials must be supplied in order for the resource to be returned as requested.
Upon receiving a 401 response header, the client’s browser, if it supports basic authentication, will ask
This is a mini Rails app that uses RESTful authentication and Acts As State Machine with the following features:
Signup Account Activation Login / Logout Forgot Password Reset Password Change Password
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Quite some time ago I put together a proof of concept illustrating the relative simplicity by which a multi factor authentication system, sometimes referred to as two factor authentication could be established for web services.
My basic design concept was to use server-side technologies to create and store an authenticated session key having achieved strong authentication with the client browser.
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IT Security - San Francisco,CA,USA, June 20, 2008 -
Vendors selling managed authentication services, however, offer a third choice for password management: have a third-party company take over the chore of running a two-factor authentication system.
DC Energy's Experience
DC Energy, a proprietary trading firm that invests in energy markets, opted for the managed approa
This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with MySQL authentication (using mod_auth_mysql) on Apache2 on a Debian Etch server. WebDAV stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning and is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that allow users to directly edit files on the Apache server so that they do not need to be downloaded/uploaded via FTP. Of course, WebDAV can also be used to up
This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with MySQL authentication (using mod_auth_mysql) on Apache2 on a Debian Etch server. WebDAV stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning and is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that allow users to directly edit files on the Apache server so that they do not need to be downloaded/uploaded via FTP. Of course, WebDAV can also be used to up
You can configure Squid to prompt users for a username and password. Squid comes with a program called ncsa_auth that reads any NCSA-compliant encrypted password file.
1) Create the password file. The name of the password file should be /etc/squid/squid_passwd, and you need to make sure that it’s universally readable.
# touch /etc/squid/squid_passwd
# chmod o+r /etc/squid/squid_passwd
2) Use
Approaches to authentication such username and password is done only once, at the point that the user logs into the system. An alternative to this approach is provided by the Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP) which repeats an authentication procedure at random intervals during an ongoing connection between a client and a service.
The CHAP authentication scheme is used primarily
To access the LDAP service, the LDAP client first must authenticate itself to the service. That is, it must tell the LDAP server who is going to be accessing the data so that the server can decide what the client is allowed to see and do. If the client authenticates successfully to the LDAP server, then when the server subsequently receives a request from the client, it will check whether the clie
The usual corporate networks provide internet access via proxy servers and at times they require authentication as well. May applications do open the connections to servers which are external to the corporate intranet. So one has to do proxy authentication programmatically. Fortunately Java provides a transparent mechanism to do proxy authentications.Create a simple class like below-import java.ne
CRYPTOCard and Interoute partner to offer CRYPTO-MAS (Managed Authentication Service)
Ottawa, Ontario, May 16, 2008 - wo-factor authentication vendor Cryptocard has unveiled Interoute as the first pan-European recruit to its managed authentication service partner programme.
Interoute will push Cryptocard’s CRYPTO-MAS managed service offering to its install base of 20,000 corpor
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Ottawa, Ontario, May 12, 2008 - CRYPTOCard and Interoute have announced a strategic partnership to deliver a new form of strong authentication and identity management to Interoute's client base across the globe. CRYPTOCard's Managed Authentication Service (CRYPTO-MAS) will help Interoute's clients reinforce their identity management systems by eliminating a major IT
In previous post I have mentioned about SQL SERVER 2005 - Vista Ultimate and SQL Server 2005 DEV Edition. There was one simple issue with the installation. I was not able to login using windows authentication method. I was able to successful login using sa username and password.
I kept on receiving following error.
TITLE: Connect to [...]
SSHs (secure shell) most common authentication mode is called interactive keyboard password authentication, so called both because it is typically done via keyboard, and because openssh takes active measures to make sure that the password is, indeed, typed interactively by the keyboard. Sometimes, however, it is necessary to fool ssh into accepting an interactive password non-interactively. This is where sshpass comes in.
SSHs (secure shell) most common authentication mode is called interactive keyboard password authentication, so called both because it is typically done via keyboard, and because openssh takes active measures to make sure that the password is, indeed, typed interactively by the keyboard. Sometimes, however, it is necessary to fool ssh into accepting an interactive password non-interactively. This is where sshpass comes in.
ITPro - Europe, May 01, 2008 - The Northern Ireland Department for Health, Social Services and Public Safety (DHSSPS) chooses Cryptocard to safeguard remote access and system administrators.
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This is a short follow-up of the last post An
Example of User Authentication System in PHP. In this post we’ll
talk about the two methods of from sending GET and POST and how thy affect the
way data sending
From the previous posts example, when we provided the username and password
and clicked on submit, we saw something like this:
If you look at the address bar, you can see the data (username and password)
being sent. Now, that’s not a good thing, if we are using a password box
to hide the password being entered then what its use is if it can be seen this
way!
The good thing is that with very few modifications, the data passed can be
made invisible (not to appear on the address bar). How? By using POST method
of data sending for the HTML form.
It
Mission
To write a Python program which can be used to authenticate for Squid proxy server. This is useful when you don't want to configure complex systems like LDAP, ntlm etc.
Use Cases
When you want to authenticate clients using mysql database.
When you want to authenticate clients using flat files or /etc/passwd file or some custom service on your network.
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Mission
To write a Python program which can be used to authenticate for Squid proxy server. This is useful when you don't want to configure complex systems like LDAP, ntlm etc.
Use Cases
When you want to authenticate clients using mysql database.
When you want to authenticate clients using flat files or /etc/passwd file or some custom service on your network.
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In this post we’re going to create a very simple user authentication
system in PHP. It’d be like the one’s you see while logging in to
various sites/services (emails, forums, social networking sites etc)
User authentication is a way for sites to know who you are among the other
registered users and showing you relevant content (may be confidential). For
example it’s only you ho is authorized to see your emails because you
only know your authentication information.
In this post we’re going to create two files, a HTML page which will
collect the username and password in a form. These information will then be
send to a PHP script, which will verify and show the required information.
Below is the PHP code:
<?php
//define some constants
We are always up for good news and new press releases and this release will be interesting to some but then again not to others, but here goes anyway. Clickatell who are a global provider of mobile messaging solutions and anything to make our lives better has to be thought about. Please read the full [...]
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Ottawa, Ontario, April 04, 2008 - Take two factors into consideration when selling
As a target market, they do not come more attractive than the extensive SME (Small to Medium Enterprise) community. Accounting for over 99 per cent of all UK organisations, and over 51 per cent of the UK’s estimated business turnover, as a collective the humble SME presents a goldmine of opportunity for resellers that is still going untapped.
To take advantage of this burgeoning SME market opportunity, the profitability and longevity of your business is dependent on getting as large a share as possible of each customer’s IT budget. In order to do this you need to identify and act on every cross-selling or up-selling opportunity. If a prospective customer is in the ma
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Ottawa, Ontario, April 04, 2008 - CRYPTOCard Adds SMS Token To Innovative 2FA Managed Authentication Service
Stroud & Swindon Building Society Among First to Implement New SMS Functionality Within Existing CRYPTO-MAS Strategic Investment
CRYPTOCard, a leading developer of two-factor authentication (2FA) technology for multi-vendor environments, has today launched in the UK its new SMS Token as part of the CRYPTO-MAS Managed Authentication Service portfolio. The SMS token offers the flexibility of CRYPTOCard's existing two-factor authentication tokens - which are widely regarded as the most secure available - and additionally addresses the need for greater portability, affordability and simplicity, particularly among an enterprise's distributed
Uno de los acrónimos mas usados en distintos documentos relacionados con la seguridad es AAA, por ejemplo este articulo de Cisco:
AAA - Autenticación, Autorización y Registro
Conjunto de herramientas, procedimientos y protocolos que garantizan un tratamiento coherente de las tareas de autenticación, autorización y registro de actividad de las entidades que tienen acceso a un sistema de
Windows mode and mixed mode (SQL & Windows).To change authentication mode in SQL Server click Start, Programs, Microsoft SQL Server and click SQLEnterprise Manager to run SQL Enterprise Manager from the Microsoft SQL Server program group.Select the server then from the Tools menu select SQL Server Configuration Properties, and choose theSecurity page.
Authentication in IIS verifies whether a user attempting to access a particular website, can indeed access it. Authentication is the process that verifies whether the user can access the site which he/she is attempting to access. The authentication methods which can be used to authenticate users in IIS 6 are listed below. Each authentication method can be used to authenticate users attempting to access Web sites. However, only Anonymous access and Basic Authentication can be used as an authentication method for FTP sites. Anonymous access: This authentication method is enabled by default for both the Default Web Site and Default FTP Site. Anonymous access allows all anonymous users to access the content of the Web site. Anonymous access is typically utilized for public Web sites
Cisco Systems, Inc. has developed the Lightweight Extensible AuthenticationProtocol (LEAP), sometimes known as “EAP-Cisco Wireless”. LEAP provides twoimportant security features.Mutual Authentication Between Station and Access PointLEAP requires the mutual authentication between stations and access points. Thisallows a connecting station to verify the identity of the access point with which it isattempting to associate. At the same time, the access point must verify the identityof the station. The station must present a username and password that will beverified by a LEAP-capable RADIUS server such as the Interlink Networks RADSeriesAAA Server. This mutual authentication ensures that only authorized usersare allowed access to the network while preventing hijacking of legitimate userses
The Cisco LEAP authentication and key exchange process occurs in three phases. The Start PhaseIn the start phase, the supplicant begins the authentication by issuing an EAPOWStartmessage to the authenticator. The authenticator responds to the supplicant withan EAP-Request/Identity message. The supplicant responds with an EAPResponse/Identity message that delivers its identity to the authenticator.Figure 2 – The Start Phase. The supplicant (client) sends an EAPOL-Start message. Theauthenticator responds with an EAP-Request/Identity message. Finally, the supplicantresponds with an EAP-Response/Identity message which contains the identity of the user.The Authenticate PhaseThe Cisco LEAP authentication is a mutual authentication method. TheAuthenticator (Access Point) relays EAP messages to
If you try to open the Forms Authentication enabled site in SharePoint Designer it will through the following error:The folder '' isn't accessible. The folder may be located in an unavailable location, protected with a password, or the filename contains a / or \.Designer cannot open the site because the site using custom authentication.There is two workaround for this issue.Approach 1:· While login to forms authentication site check the sign in me automatically(it will cache the credential and it will load the Designer)Approach 2:· Extend the Existing Forms Authentication Enabled web application to windows authentication application. Now windows authentication enabled web application can be opened in sharepoint designer using windows authentication. My Reccomandation would be Approach 2
Have ever been thorough cpanel ? when you open the link of cpanel, you can see a pop up which ask for entering user name and password for login. Well in my article I'm going to show you how you can build the same kind of page protecting mechanism using http authentication in php.Somebody might say that I can also protect the page by making a login page to access the protected page. Well dude!! you are right, you can do that but the main benefits of this method is "you don't have to create the login page at all".Let's Start, First of all store the user name and password in the variables$auth_user="urusername";$auth_pwd="urpassword";For better security, please store these values in database and authenticate from database.Now let's create the http authentication function called authenticate() using header() function available in PHP.function authenticate(){header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="Enter Your Login detail to add money"');header('HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized');echo "You m
MicroScope Magazine (www.microscope.co.uk), December 10, 2007 - Reseller perceptions that authentication is a complex and expensive enterprise sell are going to be challenged, with the technology increasingly being aimed at the SME arena. A handful of players operate in the market, including RSA and Vasco, with the traditional focus on the enterprise and financial sectors.
Jason Hart, senior vice-president for Europe at CRYPTOcard, said...
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Now the Mobile Phones could be used as a Bar Code reader too, thanks to the technology provided by the Asian Mobile Messaging gateway MacroKiosk http://www.macrokiosk.com/ which has provided the platform for the SMS barcode authentication system! Its known as Mobile Authentication Services(MAS), and makes a way for mobile phones could be used as a bar code scanner and to make authenticate online ticket purchasing or such other things or to collect rewards points etc. MAS combines 2D barcode & GSM picture technologies! It converts the text or pic messages within a 2D barcode than it could be send to the cell phones through Text Messaging, SMS, and WAP etc. Its a totally secured system and is each of the Bar Code is Unique here as its one and only one at the time on the whole of this earth at the time! Ref.: http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2006/8/29/prodit/20060829190649&sec=prodit http://www.textually.org/picturephoning/archives/2006/08/013376.htm
By-pass the login processThe website authentication system could be very annoying when you want to access certain information rapidly and you do not remember the login details or you do not have a login account.Did you think about the existence of a possibility to enter a password protected website without typing in a login name and a password? But without having a login account?These two questions have a straight answer: it is possible to by-pass the login process when websites have an authentication system used to control users access to certain resources.In the first situation, when you have a login account but you forgot the username and password, enabling cookies in your web browser can help you. Every modern web browser provides options for cookies management in privacy settings area.By enabling cookies in your web browser, next time you go on a password protected web site, the login process will be by-passed and you will be redirected to the desired page, because the cookie will
Leo en el blog de Luis Daniel Soto que ya se libero la version de Windows LiveID Authentication, yo estuve haciendo pruebas, pedi mi AppKey y toda la cosa, pero resulta que lo unico que te manda es un token de 16 digitos o algo asi y listo. En un principio pensé que con este servicio, me olvidaria de crear un registro para EM, o mejor dicho, quitaria esa parte, ya que no estoy usando Membership, pense que seria codigo que limpiaria la aplicacion, pero honestamente ni siquiera me manda el nombre y apellido de la persona de regreso. Y estuve leyendo documentacion y curiosamente el webservice me puede mandar de regreso sus contactos, pero no su informacion, no me agradaria poner en la aplicacion "Hola 124128374128, bienvenido a nuestro sitio"... :S Le dare una revisada por segunda ocasion
Israel based ClassifEye developed new fingerprint authentication technology that can be installed on any mobile phone with a camera, eliminating the need for additional hardware and therefore reducing costs and accelerating distribution.
VOIPSA has posted a message on its VOIPSEC mailing list about "Breaking SIP for fun and toll fraud".From the mailing list;"In this post, we would like to inform abouta potential Authentication vulnerability in SIP, where all SIP equipments using Digest Access Authentication which can issue re-INVITEs are vulnerable.The problem lies in an attack scenario, where a called device can be triggered by a calling party to issue a re-INVITE. Such cases appear when either a phone is put on hold. More general, this is possible whenever a target refresh within a dialog takes place.The impact is that Toll-fraud, Call-ID spoofing, etc. are possible, allowing a third entity to call on behalf of a victim. The victim is accountable in this case for the call.To our knowledge, we don't know if neither the IETF nor anybody else has addressed this issue yet.THIS IN NOT THE KNOWN ISSUE OF MAN IN THE MIDDLE. THE MAIN NOVELTY IS THAT AN ATTACKER CAN TRIGGER A re-INVITE FROM A CALLED PHONE AND REQUEST IT TOAU
Cross site scripting (XSS) errors are generally considered nothing more than a nuisance — most people do not realize the inherent danger these types of bugs create. In this article Seth Fogie looks at a real life XSS attack and how it was used to bypass the authentication scheme of an online web application, leading to "shell" access to the web server.Cross site scripting (XSS) attacks are often seen as a powerless hack. While this is true in some cases, for the most part the impact of an XSS vulnerability is left up to the imagination and talent of the attacker. In this article I am going to look at a real-life XSS attack and how it was used to bypass the authentication scheme of an online web application I was asked to test. In this case, the XSS resulted led to "shell" access to the web server — anything but harmless.The XSS VulnerabilityThe target in question had a user/password entry screen, which is fairly standard as far as web applications go. Figure 1 provides a screen sho
Heralding what may transpire to be the next line of defence against the ever persistent curse of electronic banking and credit card related fraud, this credit card, developed by Innovative Card Technologies in collaboration with eMue Technologies, comes complete with its own on-board keypad, embedded display unit and integral microprocessor allowing for card based PIN authorisation.
Known as the Credit Card Embedded Authentication Device, the smart credit card comes with a number of modes offering PIN authenticated single use and even remote card validation via authentication servers allowing for more secure web based transactions.
Of course, whilst this device undoubtedly offers considerable security benefits (certainly in relation to internet shopping) one problem remains – and that is that, should someone else know your PIN then this technology will be rendered wholly redundant.
Which leads us on to wondering whether, in a bid to gain your PIN in order to use such cards, devices
If you are an email marketer, whether using a service provider or an in-house solution, you’ve no doubt heard the term email authentication lately. With spam and identity fraud via phishing and spoofing showing no end in sight, many Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have turned towards stricter ways of handling/accepting bulk emails to stop such nefarious practices. Unfortunately, as often happens when a group of technology companies try to create new policies, several different standards have emerged, leading the email marketer the unenviable task of trying to make sense of it all. With that in mind, here’s a quick and easy overview to help you sort through the weeds.
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, September 17, 2007 - Jason Hart, CRYPTOCard’s European CEO, has launched a new Security Blog at www.twofactor.blogspot.com. Mr. Hart’s Blog features personal views and comments on two-factor authentication from the CEO of a prominent high-tech security company. This distinction, coupled with his experience as an ethical hacker, arm Mr. Hart with astonishing insights on current security threats and the solutions available to alleviate them.
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, September 17, 2007 - Jason Hart, CRYPTOCard’s European CEO, has launched a new Security Blog at www.twofactor.blogspot.com. Mr. Hart’s Blog features personal views and comments on two-factor authentication from the CEO of a prominent high-tech security company. This distinction, coupled with his experience as an ethical hacker, arm Mr. Hart with astonishing insights on current security threats and the solutions available to alleviate them.
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When PostgreSQL is installed, it has its own user added, usually postgres or pgsql. By default, just this user will be able to connect to a datatabase, and without a password. If you are running as root, you can su to the postgresql user using ‘su - postgres‘, then run ‘psql databasename‘ to connect.
You may want to allow other users to connect with a password, or possibly you’d like to disable the postgresql user from connecting without a password. To do this, you need to edit pg_hba.conf, located in /var/lib/pgsql/data.
For example, to require postgres to log in with a password and only from the local machine, use the following line in pg_hba.conf:
local all postgres password md5
This means: on the local machine allow access to all databases for the postgres user with a password.
If you wanted to allow all users from host 10.2.4.100 to connect to database foo with a password, you would do:
host foo all 10.2.4.100 255.255.255.0 md5
For your changes
With basic authentication, your server has identified who the client user is by means of a user ID and password. How sure can you be that the user really is who he claims to be? To answer this you have to consider the ways in which the ID and password may have been compromised:The user may have voluntarily given the ID to another person.The user may have written down the ID, and someone may be using it without his knowledge.Someone may have guessed the password.Someone may have intercepted the user ID and password between client and server systems.The first three possibilities are problems which occur in any password-based system. The normal response to such issues is to suggest better user education and password rules. This is quite reasonable, and can be effective within a single enterprise, where you have some control over the users of the
If you’re trying to use a socks server with Internet Explorer , Firefox, Opera or Safari everything will work just fine, except for authentication.
From my point of view this is a big problem. Who in the world would leave such a proxy server unprotected? Yeah of course you can always limit access to a proxy server based on ip address, but in some cases ( see NAT ) this is just not going to work.
Internet explorer supports only the socks4 protocol which doesn’t even support full password authentication ( only username and it defaults to the current logged in username ) .
Firefox supports socks5 but no authentication mechanism so supporting socks5 is pretty much useless. I think I saw some ticket in bugzilla about this but no one managed to commit a fix yet.
Opera doesn’t even support socks protocol but I thought I should mention all major browsers
Safari supports SOCKS5 and even allows you to set a username and password to access the SOCKS server but it does not us
The Inside AdSense blog announced that they have launched a new feature named "Site Authentication. "The Site Authentication feature enables you to give the AdSense crawler access to your password protected pages. All you need to do is provide AdSense with a username and password. Then the AdSense crawler will gain access to those protected pages and be able to serve up relevant ads based on the content.
This is the Irkon Falsh Memory uses iris recognition to gain access to the data stored on it, this is recognized as being much safer than password or even fingerprints. The device comes in 1 gb, 2 gb and 4 gb which is a great choice depending on what you are intending to store on the drive.
Features:
Luxurious design and excellent portability
Fast and accurate operation by iris authentication
User registration for up to 20 Iris templates (256-bit iris template encryption)
Easy to use : Plug and Play via USB port
Available flash memory capacity : 1GB / 2GB / 4GB
Power recharged via USB port
Tech Specs:
Recognition Time - 2 sec. or less
Max Registration data - 20 irises
Eye image capturing range - 6Cm
USB interface - USB v 1.1 and above
Input power - Rechargeable battery & USB power
Operating temperature - -5 ~ 40′C
Operating humidity - 20 ~ 95%
False Reject Rate (FRR) - 0.1% (1/1000)
False Acceptance Rate (FAR) - 0.000083% (1/1200000)
Dimensions - 30 (D) x 88 (W) x 12 (H) (
CRYPTOCard’s Smart Cards and Tokens Help Benefit Allocation Systems Meet HIPAA Compliance Regulations
Ottawa, Canada and London, England, May 31, 2007 - CRYPTOCard is proud to announce that Benefit Allocation Systems, a major provider of integrated, comprehensive benefits and human resources outsourcing solutions, has implemented CRYPTOCard’s two-factor authentication to positively identify users attempting to access the building or the network. By positively authenticating all users, CRYPTOCard has helped ensure that Benefit Allocation Systems meets the strict security requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
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CRYPTOCard’s Smart Cards and Tokens Help Benefit Allocation Systems Meet HIPAA Compliance Regulations
Ottawa, Canada and London, England, May 31, 2007 - CRYPTOCard is proud to announce that Benefit Allocation Systems, a major provider of integrated, comprehensive benefits and human resources outsourcing solutions, has implemented CRYPTOCard’s two-factor authentication to positively identify users attempting to access the building or the network. By positively authenticating all users, CRYPTOCard has helped ensure that Benefit Allocation Systems meets the strict security requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
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I've decided to proceed with the 25 user ActivIdentity starter kit for the two-factor authentication. The decision on ActivIdentity has primarily been driven by recommendation by multiple vendors and the easy point of entry for me, the decision to go ahead has been driven by the likely need to hand over our VPN secret key to a third party at some point. We can, and will, switch on username/password authentication but that's not enough as users may share details. I need the token - the tokens with the starter pack will be the keychain tokens.I am anticipating quite a cultural challenge in implementing this technology and I need to decide where best to deploy the various components on our infrastructure - but that's the fun of the job.
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