October has always been John Flynn's favorite time of year, but this
year, it's even better. He gets to spend the month trying to hack
into a fleet of Facebook computers equipped with a new kind of
security tool - a tool that takes computer security beyond the
password.
Since jumping to Facebook from his job at Google a few years ago,
Flynn has been part of the Facebook security team that masquerades
as bad guys during the month of October, doing their best to bust
into the corporate network that underpins the social networking
giant. They call it "Hacktober," and the idea is to find the holes
where the real bad guys might attack the company. Last year, Flynn
and other Facebook security engineers created a fake news story
designed to spread a computer worm around the network.
Flynn - who goes by the nickname "Four" - won't say what's in store
for Facebook's employees this October, but one thing seems certain:
Hacking them is going to be that much more of a challenge. Over the
past year, the company has equipped many employee systems with
Yubikeys, a little pieces of hardware that let employees securely
log into machines with the tap of a finger. This nifty tool can make
it that much harder for hackers to bust into a corporate network and
do whatever they want - even if the hacker manages to take command
of an authorized network machine.
via [1]Facebook Pushes Passwords One Step Closer to Death | Wired
Enterprise | Wired.com.
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My original entry is here: [2]Facebook Pushes Passwords One Step Closer
to Death | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com. It posted Wed, 09 Oct 2013
09:00:42 +0000.
Filed under: authentication, Facebook, InfoSec, multi-factor, Yubikey,
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