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  • The technology, also known as two-factor authentication, provides users with an algorithmically generated number that is only briefly valid.

    Beyond the Password Ian Sherr 2011

  • Using adverts in newspapers, on public transport and online, the two organisations will encourage users to adopt secure passwords, log out of web browsers and computers when they've finished using them and even to adopt more complex ways of signing into their email accounts, known as 'two-factor authentication'.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Matt Warman 2011

  • These new regulations, which call for compliance by January 2012, recommend the implementation of a type of identity verification known as two-factor, or Out-of-Band authentication.

    unknown title 2011

  • Using adverts in newspapers, on public transport and online, the two organisations will encourage users to adopt secure passwords, log out of web browsers and computers when they've finished using them and even to adopt more complex ways of signing into their email accounts, known as 'two-factor authentication'.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Matt Warman 2011

  • When the bank sends the unique, temporary two-factor access code to the victim's cell phone, the malware intercepts it and forwards it to the attacker.

    ZeuS botnet has a new use: Stealing bank access codes via SMS Tim Greene 2010

  • The fact is that if you think about content I need everyday from the bank, stuff like my account balance, my transaction history, upcoming payments, etc -- this probably doesn't need to be subject to a full-blown, two-factor authentication model.

    Brett King: Let's Get Rid of Internet Banking Brett King 2011

  • A secure ID would have to build into its system some sort of two-factor authentication ...

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Words I never expected to write 2010

  • The fact is that if you think about content I need everyday from the bank, stuff like my account balance, my transaction history, upcoming payments, etc -- this probably doesn't need to be subject to a full-blown, two-factor authentication model.

    Brett King: Let's Get Rid of Internet Banking Brett King 2011

  • A secure ID would have to build into its system some sort of two-factor authentication.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Words I never expected to write 2010

  • The latest criminal activity linked to the ZeuS botnet is a software package tailored to BlackBerry and Symbian mobile phones and that picks off SMS messages, apparently to break the two-factor authentication that mobile bank customers use to access their accounts, researchers says.

    ZeuS botnet has a new use: Stealing bank access codes via SMS Tim Greene 2010

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