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Friday, April 26, 2013

#SECURITY: "AP Tweet on White House Bomb Preventable"

If you follow the stock market you may have noticed that it took an immediate nose dive this week when the Associated Press erroneously tweeted that Obama had been bombed at the White House. Hackers assaulted AP reporters with phishing emails--and they should have known better, but people aren't perfect. The bottom-line, however, is that authentication technologies exist that can prevent cyber thievery in the first place, so why don't we use them? R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog


Route1's two-factor authentication uses its MobiKey as the second factor, and is integrated with a virtual desktop infrastructure that only sends encrypted keystrokes and screenshots to mobile devices, keeping data files behind a secure firewall.
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