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infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
lmao

https://twitter.com/MalwareTechBlog/status/1370523943572926464

when all you've got is problems, what's one more?

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Achmed Jones
Oct 16, 2004



i found some terrible teenageposting of mine on hacker usenet a while ago and it was very embarrassing

Munkeymon
Aug 14, 2003

Motherfucker's got an
armor-piercing crowbar! Rigoddamndicu𝜆ous.



Kazinsal posted:


you can write a functional unix kernel and tcp stack in less than ten thousand lines of code

most people can't, so that's why Javascript is popular

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

http 418


but at least its pretty

Garrand
Dec 28, 2012

Rhino, you did this to me!

Achmed Jones posted:

i found some terrible teenageposting of mine on hacker usenet a while ago and it was very embarrassing

Almost all my teenage embarrassing posts were on a long gone torrent site. Yahaa.org, oh the memories.

Quackles
Aug 11, 2018

Pixels of Light.


All mine were on a thankfully vanished forum RP.

Ulf
Jul 15, 2001

FOUR COLORS
ONE LOVE
Nap Ghost
Most of mine are locked away behind forums search.

BlankSystemDaemon
Mar 13, 2009



Surely the trick is to have no shame?

Chris Knight
Jun 5, 2002

me @ ur posts


Fun Shoe
oh boy
https://twitter.com/jason_koebler/status/1371516006133293056

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008


this is using the same technique as a sim hijack - namely that MNOs have to respond to any number portability request quickly and they’re not penalized for not checking signatures or anything so they will just put anything through. in this case it’s an SMS rerouting request

the problem is the law, or at least the implementing regulations, itself is what is being exploited so it’s difficult to fix

Kesper North
Nov 3, 2011

EMERGENCY POWER TO PARTY
Law enforcement has also been known to take advantage of this to simply buy SMS reroutes (or the resulting take) because it's perfectly legal and doesn't require a warrant or anything crazy like that.

Raymond T. Racing
Jun 11, 2019

small secfuck: selling stolen emails/passwords and using stripe for payment processing
medium secfuck: getting the site seized by the FBI
big secfuck: feebs forgetting to renew the domain, someone snatching it out from under them, creating a new email to reset the stripe password and dump the buyer info

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/03/weleakinfo-leaked-customer-payment-info/

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



Buff Hardback posted:

small secfuck: selling stolen emails/passwords and using stripe for payment processing
medium secfuck: getting the site seized by the FBI
big secfuck: feebs forgetting to renew the domain, someone snatching it out from under them, creating a new email to reset the stripe password and dump the buyer info

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/03/weleakinfo-leaked-customer-payment-info/

holy loly

ate shit on live tv
Feb 15, 2004

by Azathoth

Powerful Two-Hander posted:

gently caress you cisco your software is garbage

This was the most important rule I learned when I worked at Cisco.

Potato Salad
Oct 23, 2014

nobody cares



jesus christ

it's already hard enough for the elderly to do their banking / investment management. I don't see a path to non sms mfa in finance

we have to loving fix sms.

Quackles
Aug 11, 2018

Pixels of Light.


Authenticator apps for all! Sooner rather than later, too.

Dylan16807
May 12, 2010

Potato Salad posted:

jesus christ

it's already hard enough for the elderly to do their banking / investment management. I don't see a path to non sms mfa in finance

we have to loving fix sms.

for something as important as a bank or investment account, can't they just mail an OTP token?

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

http 418

app with push auth instead of sms is actually really easy to use!

when I log in to any number of sites my phone gets a yes/no pop up, which is WAY easier than sms

Varkk
Apr 17, 2004

But that requires a smartphone and to setup the appropriate Authenticator app. This is at least two bridges too far for a significant chunk of users.

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

http 418

Varkk posted:

But that requires a smartphone and to setup the appropriate Authenticator app. This is at least two bridges too far for a significant chunk of users.

the auth app part is easy, make it part of new customer onboarding with the bank, do a massive outreach to your current customer base etc etc. Its human problem, and those can be managed

the lack of smartphone, even if banks started handing them out free, is a bigger obstacle, after having tried to sell someone in their 60s on a smartphone

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006
we allow phone call auth for people without smartphones or who dont want to install microsoft authenticator. no sms tho.

Quackles
Aug 11, 2018

Pixels of Light.


Shaggar posted:

we allow phone call auth for people without smartphones or who dont want to install microsoft authenticator. no sms tho.

You only allow Microsoft Authenticator? :stonk: Not the usual 'code refreshes every 30 seconds' types?

(I admit to being opinionated. I just am not a fan of Microsoft Auth because it needs a connection, as opposed to connectionless ones like Google Authenticator and anything that uses that same method).

Volmarias
Dec 31, 2002

EMAIL... THE INTERNET... SEARCH ENGINES...

Dylan16807 posted:

for something as important as a bank or investment account, can't they just mail an OTP token?

They can, and have! You can see by the prevalence of OTP options for banking how well that worked out.

ClassActionFursuit
Mar 15, 2006

Quackles posted:

You only allow Microsoft Authenticator? :stonk: Not the usual 'code refreshes every 30 seconds' types?

(I admit to being opinionated. I just am not a fan of Microsoft Auth because it needs a connection, as opposed to connectionless ones like Google Authenticator and anything that uses that same method).

look who youre replying to

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

http 418

Quackles posted:

You only allow Microsoft Authenticator? :stonk: Not the usual 'code refreshes every 30 seconds' types?

(I admit to being opinionated. I just am not a fan of Microsoft Auth because it needs a connection, as opposed to connectionless ones like Google Authenticator and anything that uses that same method).

the problem with the code approach is getting granny to enter it before it expires

have you ever watched a geriatric try and enter one of those codes? you are lucky if they do it in under 2 minutes

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



the problem there is, at the core, the geriatrics.

we live in a golden age of accessible virtual reality. nursing homes should come equipped with cheap VR kits for each resident. give them their own 1950s-flavoured VRChat server and let them do crossword puzzles, work on classic cars, have brunch at diners, and hold biweekly cross burnings in that 16 hours a day

Wild EEPROM
Jul 29, 2011


oh, my, god. Becky, look at her bitrate.
the problem is more that techlords working at google or wherever change the interface every update and if you don’t already know what you’re doing then you never will

Chalks
Sep 30, 2009

Quackles posted:

You only allow Microsoft Authenticator? :stonk: Not the usual 'code refreshes every 30 seconds' types?

(I admit to being opinionated. I just am not a fan of Microsoft Auth because it needs a connection, as opposed to connectionless ones like Google Authenticator and anything that uses that same method).

we've never had any issues with the ms authenticator, do you mean there might be an issue if you have no wireless internet and no phone signal but need to log in? we also have phone call auth as a fallback but obviously if you have no phone signal that's of no use either.

needing to log into AD but not having a connection on your phone is honestly something that's never occurred to me.

Shifty Pony
Dec 28, 2004

Up ta somethin'


Wild EEPROM posted:

the problem is more that techlords working at google or wherever change the interface every update and if you don’t already know what you’re doing then you never will

This really is the root of the problem. If Google could go more than two months without chasing whatever twee bullshit is currently the fad, if Apple wouldn't redesign the "minimalist" wheel every iOS release, if Facebook wouldn't gently caress with their interface to try to force adoption of whatever copycat feature they are pushing this month... maybe people could learn.

Lysidas
Jul 26, 2002

John Diefenbaker is a madman who thinks he's John Diefenbaker.
Pillbug
duo mobile is great, i have 4 or 5 duo-specific 2FA accounts configured, it is even nicer after getting an apple watch and being able to just hit 'approve' on the watch without having to even pick up my phone (even duo-2FA access to 'sudo' on a cluster, which i thought was really neat)

i also use duo mobile for plain 30second expiry TOTP because why install something else

shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

Startup thought: A specialist sales & support company that puts really comfy iRacing sim rigs in nursing homes preloaded with BEAMng Drive and all of them stream to twitch 24/7

Lysidas
Jul 26, 2002

John Diefenbaker is a madman who thinks he's John Diefenbaker.
Pillbug
i really want my bank to allow TOTP 2FA as something i can opt in to instead of sms verification, nothing so extreme as github with "if you lose your totp key and recovery codes, your account is permanently inaccessible", maybe losing key + recovery codes means having to physically go to the bank and show ID to have that reset

so probably also not really feasible for credit cards with no physical locations spread across the country like amex or (at least in my area) citi

flakeloaf
Feb 26, 2003

Still better than android clock

Volmarias posted:

They can, and have! You can see by the prevalence of OTP options for banking how well that worked out.

it is harder to log into my world of warcraft account than it is to log into my loving bank account where my life savings are

Raymond T. Racing
Jun 11, 2019

Lysidas posted:

i really want my bank to allow TOTP 2FA as something i can opt in to instead of sms verification, nothing so extreme as github with "if you lose your totp key and recovery codes, your account is permanently inaccessible", maybe losing key + recovery codes means having to physically go to the bank and show ID to have that reset

so probably also not really feasible for credit cards with no physical locations spread across the country like amex or (at least in my area) citi

the trick with that is there’s already a regulatory solution. If you get actually properly hacked and money moved, you call your bank and tell them and they sort it out. there is no institutional need for stronger security because it’s handled at a regulatory level

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

flakeloaf posted:

it is harder to log into my world of warcraft account than it is to log into my loving bank account where my life savings are

my credit union used to have abysmal security (max length password of like, 10 characters, alphanumeric only, poo poo like that) and then a couple years ago revamped it to be merely bad

baby steps :unsmith:

Jenny Agutter
Mar 18, 2009

Quackles posted:

You only allow Microsoft Authenticator? :stonk: Not the usual 'code refreshes every 30 seconds' types?

(I admit to being opinionated. I just am not a fan of Microsoft Auth because it needs a connection, as opposed to connectionless ones like Google Authenticator and anything that uses that same method).

imagine using a google app for something as important as 2fa, lol

its wild that some accounts let you set up an authenticator app, but the recovery process for losing your authenticator is via sms. ubisoft does this, and i encountered another one recently but can't remember what it was

Volmarias
Dec 31, 2002

EMAIL... THE INTERNET... SEARCH ENGINES...

Shifty Pony posted:

This really is the root of the problem. If Google could go more than two months without chasing whatever twee bullshit is currently the fad, if Apple wouldn't redesign the "minimalist" wheel every iOS release, if Facebook wouldn't gently caress with their interface to try to force adoption of whatever copycat feature they are pushing this month... maybe people could learn.

Woah hold up, how will VPs have a rationale for promotion / transfer if they don't shake everything up? What will the designers even do all day???

Will no one think of the upper managers?!

flakeloaf posted:

it is harder to log into my world of warcraft account than it is to log into my loving bank account where my life savings are

Your bank cannot tell you to, quote, "git gud," and it also allows you to handle an incident far more directly than blizzard ever would. Your bank has a physical presence where you can make a scene, flecks of spittle flying everywhere, as you scream about your extremely secure password of "lmao1234" being guessed and your SMS based token getting intercepted.

There are also far more olds and incompetents who will still need to use your bank, while blizzard is more than ok with not holding these people's hands.

xtal
Jan 9, 2011

by Fluffdaddy

Volmarias posted:

Your bank cannot tell you to, quote, "git gud,"

Achmed Jones
Oct 16, 2004



flakeloaf posted:

it is harder to log into my world of warcraft account than it is to log into my loving bank account where my life savings are

sounds like you need to store more of your net worth in purple swords

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Guy Axlerod
Dec 29, 2008
Who needs to steal a SMS token for your bank when everyone you've ever written a check to has all the details needed to make an ACH withdrawal from your account.

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