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  • From: "Cantor, Scott" <>
  • To: "" <>
  • Subject: Re: [Assurance] can two-factor be hacked ?
  • Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 14:34:17 +0000
  • Accept-language: en-US

On 3/11/14, 3:20 AM, "Jones, Mark B"
<>
wrote:
>
>As far as the original question. It seems to me that MFA is a good
>defense.

Then I think you misunderstand the question, it's the exact scenario where
typical OTP approaches to MFA do not solve the problem. A MITM attack
against all legs can simply steal and play the OTP to obtain a session.
Normally it's done innocently as in this case, but it can be done as an
attack.

-- Scott

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