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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2010
Robert Seth Black, Brookline, MA (US);
Karl Ackerman, Topsfield, MA (US);
Robert Seth Black, Brookline, MA (US);
Karl Ackerman, Topsfield, MA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A method of detecting a fraudulent login attempt across a network is provided. The method includes (a) receiving, at some time, a login request from a client, the login request including (1) a username associated with a user account, (2) a static password associated with the user account, and (3) a one-time password provided by a token, (b) calculating whether the time is more than a predetermined amount of time after a most-recent login to the account, (c) when the time is more than the predetermined time since the most-recent login, accepting the login request according to a first mode, and (d) when the first time is not more than the predetermined time since the most-recent login, accepting the login request according to a second mode, the second mode rejecting a greater proportion of login attempts than the first mode rejects. An apparatus and computer program product are also provided.