gpaterno

A lot of web sites, even well known ones (newspapers, telcos, …) adopts 
WordPress as their CMS. WordPress is a great platform, however it 
can happen that password leaking or guessing might lead to unauthorized 
access to the platform. A potential attacker can be therefore able to 
change articles, part of the web site and/or make the website unavailable, 
with image and economic damages for a company or for a blogger. 
This is even more true if your website is not SSL protected.
SecurePass is a SaaS service offering an easy and affordable solution 
for One Time Passwords (OTP) and strong authentication in general. They 
offer 5 users for free included with their standard (=basic) account, which 
is more than enough for standard blogs and web sites. Companies can purchase 
additional users, if needed.
More information on the section “Setup and configure SecurePass” in Other Notes. 
To open a SecurePass account go to http://www.secure-pass.net/open
<h3>Setup and configure SecurePass</h3>
If you don’t own already an account with SecurePass, you can sign-up for a new account here: http://www.secure-pass.net/open
Note: Use “misec2011” as promo code, it will give you an entitlement for using 
SecurePass up to 10 users for 2 years free-of-charge. Without any promo code, 
you will have 5 users for 20 years for free. It depends on what you need (more users or more years).
Connect to the admin interface on https://admin.secure-pass.net 
and create a new device (basically a RADIUS client).
In the admin interface, go to the “Device” section and add a new device. 
You will need to set the public IP Address of the server, a fully qualified 
domain name (FQDN), and the secret password for the radius authentication. 
It’s ok if your web server is behind a firewall and/or NAT, ensure that 
your server has rights to send (and receive) RADIUS authentication requests, 
i.e. UDP port 1812.
<h3>Further reading</h3>
<ul>
<li>
This plugin web site: 
https://github.com/gpaterno/wp-securepass/
</li>
<li>
SecurePass web site: 
http://www.secure-pass.net/
</li>
<li>
UK on-line shop for SecurePass (they sell hardware tokens): 
http://shop.nervinesecurity.com/
</li>
</ul>

SecurePass authentication

This is a plugin to autheticate users through the SecurePass One Time Passwords service.

Kieran O'Shea

Henrik Schack

This plugin dramatically enhances the security of your WordPress website by adding Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) in the form of One Time Passwords (OTP) 
using <a href="https://www.yubico.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Yubikey USB Tokens</a>. In addition to providing your username and password to login, this plugin requests an OTP code 
generated by a Yubikey, validates this via an API and only grants access if this check passes. The requirement to use an OTP can be set on a user by user 
basis and there is also a feature to require users above a certain privilege level to always use OTP.
<h3>External services</h3>
This plugin connects to an API to validate the OTP tokens generated by your security key. This is required because storing the private keys 
on the same web server as the site you wish to protect would be a security risk.
By default Yubico’s own validation server is employed, although you may setup your own server and use this instead
The default Yubico API only collects the one time password (OTP) data as provided by your security key when you login. The service validates this 
and then stores this token as “used” so it may not be replayed as part of an attack. It does not collect any other data (such as what URL is being 
authenticated using the key etc.)
This service is provided by “Yubico AB”: <a href="https://www.yubico.com/support/terms-conditions/privacy-notice/" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a>, <a href="https://www.yubico.com/support/terms-conditions/yubico-website-terms-conditions/" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Use</a>

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Enhanced login security for WordPress by requiring the presentation of a One Time Password (OTP) from a registered Yubikey

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