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.
Massive, Internet-scale compromise has taken many forms over the years. But it's probably never been easier than today.
In an era of commodity exploit kits, drive-by malware, and crimeware-as-a-service, a second login factor isn't excessive.
We've open-sourced our duo_unix package for easy, drop-in two-factor authentication to any Unix system.
If you haven't seen it yet Gartner's John Pescatore has a good note up about the need for stronger authentication and a move away from relying upon reusable passwords.
Our founder and CEO, Dug Song just posted a 30 second demo on YouTube of our Duo two-factor authentication integrated with a Juniper SSL VPN, likely setting new land speed records for authentication in the process.
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.
> We are excited that our Founder and CEO, Dug Song, will be flying out this Wednesday to speak at the Xconomy 5x5 event in Boston, MA. The Xconomy 5x5 event brings together speakers from disruptive companies from five Xconomy cities, Boston, Detroit, San Diego, San Francisco, and Seattle this Wednesday, Dec 8th, 2010.
Since starting Duo, the question we've gotten most often is: Why another two-factor auth company? Because nothing else stops attackers in their tracks like strong authentication — if it can be made easy.
