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Tokenless Two Factor Authentication
PhoneFactor, Inc provides secure two-factor authentication services to leading companies worldwide. PhoneFactor's multifactor out-of-band authentication software is a cost effective, user friendly alternative to tokens , security fobs, certificates, and other 2 factor authentication methods.  ...
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SSL Web Security Protocol Compromised by Researchers
Digital Trends — ... Two researchers with PhoneFactor say they've found a serious flaw with SSL security - the technology used to protect most online transactions. Two researchers with PhoneFactor , a company that offers two-factor authentication services, say that thay have uncovered a ...

Indiscreet tweet trips awareness of Web SSL vulnerability
Betanews — ... The problem is essentially a repeat of what developers of TLS and its parent protocol, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), have dealt with a handful of times in the past: the potential of man-in-the-middle attacks by malicious servers that can pass themselves off as security authenticators. As the team from wireless security service provider PhoneFactor discovered last August, it was possible using both Microsoft IIS 7.0 and Apache httpd Web servers to demonstrate a situation where a false TLS server authenticates itself to a genuine Web client, then authenticates itself ...

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