Cybersecurity Revisited: Honeytokens meet Google Authenticator
This addresses security issues for users of authentication systems, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing methods like honeytokens and Google Authenticator.
The paper tackles the vulnerability of multi-factor authentication to sophisticated attacks by proposing a novel two-factor authentication system that incorporates honeytokens, collaborating with Google Authenticator to add extra security layers.
Although sufficient authentication mechanisms were enhanced by the use of two or more factors that resulted in new multi factor authentication schemes, more sophisticated and targeted attacks have shown they are also vulnerable. This research work proposes a novel two factor authentication system that incorporates honeytokens into the two factor authentication process. The current implementation collaborates with Google authenticator. The novelty and simplicity of the presented approach aims at providing additional layers of security and protection into a system and thus making it more secure through a stronger and more efficient authentication mechanism.