Jon is the co-founder and CTO of Duo Security, responsible for leading product vision and the Duo Labs advanced research team. Before starting Duo, Jon was a self-loathing academic, completing his PhD at the University of Michigan in the realm of cloud security. In a prior life, Jon enjoyed offensive security research and generally hacking the planet. Jon was recently named to Forbes "30 under 30" list for his mobile security hijinks.
The topic of trust is something near and dear to us at Duo, as we've designed our platform from the ground-up to place as minimal trust in our service as necessary and are continually working to further host-proof our service.
We're excited to announce that we've officially launched Duo Push, a new authentication method that leverages modern smartphones to provide two-factor authentication that's both resistant to the latest threats and is actually enjoyable to use!
> It’s been about six months since I reported a vulnerability in the Android mobile platform that allowed the unprompted installation of arbitrary applications with arbitrary permissions on a victim’s device.
In case you haven't heard, LastPass, everyone's favorite browser-based password manager, posted an unsettling blog post yesterday detailing an anomalous event that occurred Tuesday morning on their infrastructure.
We've launched a site that allows you to easily check if your username or email address was included in the Gawker password dump: http://didigetgawkered.com.
