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Privacy groups turn up heat on Windows XP, Passport
News A group of privacy organisations on Wednesday renewed their attacks on Microsoft's Passport authentication service and Windows XP, asking the Federal Trade Commission to mandate changes in Microsoft's new operating system.
[August 16, 2001, 8:50]
Passport hits industry barriers
News I expect at some point, Microsoft is going to say Passport is for Microsoft sites and close partners and leave it at that. That was the plan a few years ago, when the software giant began pitching its Passport online authentication service as a...
[March 23, 2004, 11:45]
Passport security takes another holiday
News Microsoft has had to admit that for the second time in six weeks, a major security flaw has been discovered in Passport -- the single sign-on repository designed to keep all its users' personal details and credit card numbers in a safe place.
[July 2, 2003, 14:09]
Passport fee rise linked to ID cards
News The proposed cost of the standalone biometric ID card will actually drop to £15 but the cost of the separate passport will increase to £70 from its current fee of £42. From 2007 everyone applying for a new or renewal passport will pay the higher...
[November 3, 2004, 14:48]
Passport glitch hits Microsoft game site
News Microsoft's online gaming site suffered another glitch in its switch to the Passport identification system on Monday, logging subscribers on to a bogus Hotmail email account. The representative said Monday's glitch was related to The Zone switching...
[January 30, 2002, 10:04]
Passport agency: 'Iris recognition needs work'
News The UK Passport Service (UKPS) claims that iris recognition is still not an accurate enough method of biometric identification for mainstream deployment, following extensive trials of the technology. Speaking at the Biometrics 2005 conference in...
[October 20, 2005, 18:05]
Settlement means sweeping changes to Passport
News Microsoft on Thursday agreed to make sweeping changes to its Passport authentication system as part of a settlement agreement with the Federal Trade Commission. The settlement addresses allegations that Passport collects too much information, uses...
[August 9, 2002, 7:50]
Government U-turns on passport pledge
News The Identity and Passport Service has confirmed that passports will in future require extra information from applicants — their fingerprints. In his speech to the Labour Party conference on 29 September, prime minister Gordon Brown said: "We will...
[October 1, 2009, 12:20]
Microsoft settles over Passport privacy
News The US government has reached a settlement with Microsoft over complaints that the company's Passport authentication service poses a threat to consumers' privacy and security. As part of the settlement, Microsoft agreed to implement a comprehensive...
[August 8, 2002, 14:31]
Europe inches closer to full e-passport rollout
News The UK was one of 27 countries that took part in the tests of RFID chips and passport readers for second-generation e-passports. The tests demonstrated that it was possible for different EU countries to produce the e-passports to the same standard...
[September 23, 2008, 9:22]
Passport may be key to MSN Messenger outage
News MSN Messenger uses Passport to log in to the service. Passport accounts are tied to an existing email address. Informal testing conducted by CNET News.com found that some Passport accounts using email addresses ending in non-Microsoft domains had...
[July 6, 2001, 9:16]
Survey: MS Passport required, not wanted
News Microsoft has doubled the number of people signed up for its Passport authentication service, but the majority of people are doing so because of product requirements rather than the allure of new features, research group Gartner said on Wednesday.
[April 18, 2002, 9:29]
MPs praise e-passport rollout
News MPs have said that the project management behind the introduction of the first electronic passport has been an outstanding success. The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) has been praised for its management of the introduction of the first type of...
[October 11, 2007, 13:04]
Liberty Alliance and Passport still poles apart
News The Alliance has yet to describe publicly how its technology will work, putting it far behind Microsoft's up-and-running Passport service, which Microsoft claims has 200 million subscribers. Microsoft would like to guarantee interoperability...
[February 20, 2002, 9:06]
IBM staying neutral on Passport versus Liberty
News We're still neutral re: Passport and Liberty," Sutor told ZDNet UK. Liberty, which has not yet chosen a specific technology, is a response to Microsoft's Passport, included with Windows XP. IBM supports Passport, but is currently not a member of...
[February 25, 2002, 17:43]
Researcher details Dutch e-passport hack
News The researcher explained that e-passport systems use a mechanism called 'passive authentication' to detect unauthorised changes of data on the chip. A document security object, or 'SOD', is stored in the chip, which contains between two and 16...
[October 2, 2008, 13:17]
Indigo: The colour of Passport security?
News At its developer conference this week, Microsoft is expected to unveil plans to beef up the security of its Passport online authentication service with middleware code-named Indigo. The middleware, code-named Indigo, will extend the security and...
[October 23, 2001, 11:41]
Microsoft increases Passport security
News Microsoft began notifying Passport users on Monday night of changes that would give them more control over their accounts and increased privacy and security. The changes could eliminate two of the biggest customer gripes against Passport: That...
[September 3, 2002, 11:06]
Biometric trials point to passport fraud
News Sources close to the trial indicated that testing of the biometric technology against Passport Australia's existing database of passport information has yielded instances whereby an individual's unique facial biometric has been identified as...
[September 18, 2002, 9:20]
Gov't awards £400m biometric-passport contract
News The Identity and Passport Service on Thursday announced the £400m contract for the passports, which will be available to UK citizens from October 2010. The British passport is recognised as one of the best in the world, and we want to keep it that...
[June 12, 2009, 11:54]
