{"id":16435,"date":"2016-08-14T13:01:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T18:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16435"},"modified":"2016-08-14T13:01:46","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T18:01:46","slug":"social-security-administration-now-requires-two-factor-authentication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16435","title":{"rendered":"Social Security Administration Now Requires Two-Factor Authentication"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Sadly, it is still relatively easy for thieves to create an account in the name of Americans who have not already created one for themselves. All one would need is the target\u2019s name, date of birth, Social Security number, residential address, and phone number.\u00a0This personal data can be bought for roughly $3-$4 from a variety of cybercrime shops online.<\/p>\n<p>After that, the SSA relays four multiple-guess, so-called \u201cknowledge-based authentication\u201d or KBA questions from credit bureau\u00a0<strong>Equifax<\/strong>. In practice, many of these KBA questions \u2014 such as previous address, loan amounts and dates \u2014 can be successfully enumerated with random guessing. \u00a0What\u2019s more, very often the answers to these questions can be found by consulting free online services, such as <strong>Zillow<\/strong> and <strong>Facebook<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2016\/08\/social-security-administration-now-requires-two-factor-authentication\/\">Social Security Administration Now Requires Two-Factor Authentication \u2014 Krebs on Security<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, it is still relatively easy for thieves to create an account in the name of Americans who have not already created one for themselves. All one would need is the target\u2019s name, date of birth, Social Security number, residential &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16435\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[414,101,692],"class_list":["post-16435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking","tag-authentication","tag-security","tag-user-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16436,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16435\/revisions\/16436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}