SIM Based Authentication to reduce Phishing attacks

Caute_cautim — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 10:11:52 GMT

Hi All

This looks like an interesting idea for reducing phishing attacks against mobile devices.

What do you think?

https://thehackernews.com/2022/05/sim-based-authentication-aims-to.html

Regards

Caute_Cautim

Re: SIM Based Authentication to reduce Phishing attacks

denbesten — Thu, 26 May 2022 04:23:06 GMT

General advice I hear is "SMS and call-based MFA [are] the least secure of the MFA methods available today" [cite]. It is good to see that the article's subject is attempting to address SMS weaknesses.

My personal favorite MFA defense at the moment is the "number matching" mechanism. That said, Even the worst MFA is substantially better than NO MFA, so I will gladly leverage whatever the IdP offers.

Plus, we should be striving to minimize user-disruption with technologies such as cert-auth, SSO, and face-id, reserving traditional MFA for high-risk activities such as device registration and password resets.

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