AbstractsComputer Science

SMS_OTP

by Mai Phuong Nguyen




Institution: Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu
Department:
Year: 2014
Record ID: 1136678
Full text PDF: http://www.theseus.fi/handle/10024/75122


Abstract

Information Technology is developing dramatically nowadays. People are familiar with a user and a password provided to them. But a lot of them get access into their accounts without knowing that there might be a security problem happened so that they can lose their static password, furthermore the hackers can deploy those private information’s and hand-out to the third party thus could be against themselves in the future. SMS-OTP is one kind of solutions to get rid of some kinds of hacking methods like phishing, man in the middle, key-loggers and basically social engineering…So, the goal of project is to create a second layer of security to protect the users from those threads by simply require an extra security code that provide from the server to their mobile phone whenever they want to log-in to their account from the internet. The idea of this security method is very good cause it can be applied to many aspects like net-bank, online game, social networks… so it should be used for the future technology