Bank Of America Looking To Proximity Based Authentication
January 30, 2010
Have you ever forgotten your password for your Bank of America (BoA) detail, and inquiry that the password be sent to your mobile phone? Well, there is a possibility that when you do that in the future, the system will track the location of your mobile phone before sending out the password. that is due to a new patent filed by the company, claiming that it is a way of minimizing risks of false authentication by ensuring that the mobile device that the password is sent to is more or less in the same location as the computer used to access the online detail. Tracking can be done is various ways such as GPS, Wireless IP geolocation, cellphone tower signal triangulation etc. Do you think that it’s a good notion to do that, or do you just feel that it’s an invasion of privacy?
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MiFi shield Issues Can Reveal User Location
January 17, 2010
MiFi devices are quite useful, as it allows users to share 3G wireless connections by a Wi-Fi network. Sharing is certainly caring, and everybody loves Wi-Fi, but it seems there MiFi might share info that you might not want to be shared. Folks have managed to identify a flaw in MiFi devices (from both Sprint and Verizon) that could allow attackers to gain access to the GPS location of the device without the user’s knowledge by using a combination of attacks. To manufacture matters worse, the attack does not require authentication, making it a lot easier to exploit. It seems that the attacker can even download the entire device configuration, including clear text credentials, which certainly is something we’d all rather not happen.
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VESA updates Embedded DisplayPort Standard Version 1.1a
November 18, 2009
VESA has recently updated the Embedded DisplayPort Standard to Version 1.1a while drawing up requirements for the Video Interface to the LCD Panel in notebooks as well as various embedded applications.
eDP version 1.1a includes further definition on display authentication for protected video composition, addresses Sink device AUX channel interrupt requests, and makes enhancements to the 4-lane connector used for 3D display applications. eDP is based on the VESA DisplayPort 1.1a Standard. The DisplayPort Standard is oriented toward external applications with emphasis on interoperability amidst system vendors and interconnection cables. Newer PC chipsets and GPUs designed for notebook PCs support both DisplayPort and eDP from the same video port connections, enabling configuration options to the system integrator.
If you're interested in the Embedded DisplayPort (eDP) Standard, that is available free of charge here. [Press Release]
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