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IRS Attack Demonstrates How Breaches Beget More Breaches
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RyanSepe
RyanSepe,
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5/29/2015 | 1:37:36 PM
Re: I died a little inside...
I always believe that what you have and are(biometrics) are more secure than what you know. Biometrics and owned hardware are more difficult to provide as fraudelent. What you know such as passwords and security questions are highly researchable through methods such as social engineering and analytics. "Your favorite food?" How many people like pizza? Questions can only be so complex. For the other options you would have to lose your device or have much more elaborate steps taken for biometrics. But this will definitely come at a cost, for both parties.
Marilyn Cohodas
Marilyn Cohodas,
 User Rank: Strategist
5/29/2015 | 1:12:02 PM
Re: I died a little inside...
Yes, indeed, Sara. What comes after? There's lots of possibilities. But the challenges seem to increase exponentially.
Sara Peters
Sara Peters,
 User Rank: Author
5/29/2015 | 9:47:53 AM
Re: Secure Computing in a Compromised Environment
@macker940 Well I certainly agree with you on this point: "SSL/TLS is not acceptable." Do you think we'll EVER get to the point that public key infrastructure or digital signatures or anything similar/equal will become a norm?
Sara Peters
Sara Peters,
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5/29/2015 | 9:39:14 AM
Re: I died a little inside...
@Paladium  Totally agree! We've got to move beyond the idea that a successful login = a legitimate login. The question is, what has to come after that? Is it just asking for more, more, more, more, more kinds of credentials? Is it behavior-based biometrics? Is it confirmations via SMS or email?

Thoughts?

 

 
Paladium
Paladium,
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5/29/2015 | 9:02:07 AM
I died a little inside...
All I can say is WOW.  Not really unexpected from an organization that wants to control our lives through the tax code, but who can't even patch their computers in a timely manner.

"The information that was used to bypass the security screen, including Social Security numbers, dates of birth and street addresses, are all components of data that have recently been compromised in health insurance data breaches."

...

"Well, the IRS decided that if you know a person's SSN, birthday, and street address, then you must be that person."

That's when I died a little more inside.  It's hard enough to secure and protect our IT systems as it is, doing all the right things and still getting compromised.  But when you do little or nothing, like the IRS is doing, just WOW.

Someone stop the madness please...

 
macker490
macker490,
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5/29/2015 | 8:49:57 AM
Secure Computing in a Compromised Environment
the means to provide reliable identification in a digital computer network environment has been available for years: PGP.

over the yars PGP has been depreciated by its detractors as "too complex"

Complex systems such as PGP can be made usable by everyone -- just like a "smart phone" -- by means of packaged technology: wrapping the technology in an easy to use human interface -- often called a "GUI" -- or GUI Dialog

Roots

On paper we sign our name with pen&ink.   and that signature is characterized by the individual signer,-- pretty hard to duplicate except by a highly skilled forger.   even so, with Notaries or witnesses -- the pen& ink signature has been reliable for years.

but in our online digital networks -- whe have -- nothing

except that PGP has been available since the '90s -- and not adopted for general use due to opposition from interests opposed to privacy and security and such

we may now have reached a tipping point where we will have to admit our error and mend our ways

the key factor needed to implement PGP authentications is explanded authentications.    Your PGP Public Key needs to be authenticated by a reliable party in order for your signatures to be recognized as valid.   Keep these words in mind:   In order for your signature to be recognized as valid.    This also requires an assurance that YOU made the signature -- not a some scamster.  This is possible with PGP because PGP provides both a Public and Private key for each user.   The private key is required to make a signature while the public key is required to recognize(authenticate) a signature.

Exactly what we need!

The only issue is in getting the Public Keys authenticated.   This should become a service offered by local Credit Unions and Banks.    After you generate your key you take it to the Credit Union.  They check your ID and then counter-sign it and upload it to the keyserver.

Now you will be able to authenticate your 1040, online banking, shopping &c

SSL/TLS is not acceptable: it is a half-baked system: The server is able to identify itself -- but not the client.  Even the server's ID is questionable as the client has only marginal trust for x.509 certificates: he or she has NOT verified and countersigned the x.509 certificates he/she needs to use.   This is what enables MITM attacks.
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