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802.11i - designed to integrate
News Three components of security Security has three main components, authentication to confirm both sides of a transaction are authorised to exchange data, encryption to protect the data in transit, and key management to allow both sides to read each...
[April 10, 2003, 9:22]
SAP, Nokia join forces against counterfeiting
News Original1's product-assurance services will be based on the SAP platform, with Nokia providing mobile authentication software. G&D will deliver security solutions including authentication, end-to-end encryption of the information flow and database...
[October 28, 2009, 11:36]
Passwords are facing redundancy, says Gates
News Last week, Howard Schmidt, the chief security officer for eBay and former White House adviser for cyberspace, called for greater use of two-factor authentication -- where users must supply two forms of identification.
[November 16, 2004, 11:25]
Microsoft lines up BlackBerry challenge
News The preview will also offer optional support for certificate authentication systems, and tools for the use of Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) to sign and encrypt messages coming to and from mobile devices.
[August 18, 2005, 9:45]
Aventail EX-750 review
Reviews Most notably, it can enforce pre- and post -authentication software and configuration checks on Windows, Windows Mobile, Apple Mac and Linux clients. They can also be assigned to communities and access controls can be applied at a very granular...
[January 2, 2007, 10:43]
IDF: Enterprise wireless networks secure at last?
News This year's system, called SSN but due to be renamed, uses an authentication system called 802.1x that positively identifies the user and the access point to each other, and then provides keys for TKIP, a WEP replacement.
[September 12, 2002, 8:50]
Sun releases Liberty-enabled software
News Wells Fargo has been using the test version to handle authentication on several parts of its online banking site, Barco said. Sun launched Liberty in September 2001 as a way to thwart Microsoft's Passport authentication service, but the alliance...
[January 13, 2003, 7:50]
Symantec 'expecting Net attack'
News Furthermore, the vulnerability exists only if the Firewall Authentication Proxy for FTP and Telnet Sessions is in use, Cisco said. That component of IOS handles authentication requests for file transfer and telnet sessions.
[September 8, 2005, 9:10]
IntelliMerge SQL X
Downloads Integrated SMTP and direct mailing system with multiple connection support, connection backup capabilities, record-based error reporting, cancellation recovery, SMTP Authentication support, and automatic timeouts.
[February 12, 2003, 7:00]
Comdex 2001: Nokia touts new phone standards group
News Liberty is definitely the initiative that we as an industry are looking at (as) the most promising solution to provide an open authentication solution where the user can be in control of his authentication information," Korhonen said.
[November 13, 2001, 10:04]
Microsoft proposes joint anti-spam fight
News A melding of the two specifications could produce a stronger authentication standard. Yahoo submitted its own email authentication proposal on Tuesday to the IETF. Microsoft is lobbying to combine its technical proposal for authenticating email...
[May 24, 2004, 11:40]
Digital Identity Management review
Reviews Topics include everything from identity in virtual worlds to two-factor authentication (the kind of thing banks should be doing to authenticate themselves to customers as well as vice versa). Some may be recognisable: Aleks Krotoski (virtual worlds...
[November 30, 2007, 11:15]
Three flaws discovered in Mac OS X
News The second issue identified by @Stake, which only affects non-default installations, may allow attackers to steal authentication details of other users on a system they have restricted access to. This may result in sensitive information like...
[October 29, 2003, 8:30]
Wireless LAN security
News The Control Server sits on the network and centrally manages authentication for all wireless users, coordinates all Layer 3 roaming, and enforces policies and user privileges. The missing pieces in current WLAN standards and solutions, says Kozup...
[April 17, 2002, 13:39]
SMTPit
Downloads Authentication support. SMTPit allows you to log in to mail servers that require authentication before allowing you to send emails. SMTPit supports the Plain, Login, and CRAM-MD5 Authentication types.
[January 29, 2004, 7:00]
Researcher discovers OpenSSH flaw
News The vulnerability is in the "challenge-response" authentication mechanism in the OpenSSH daemon (sshd), the advisory states. ISS is advising systems administrators to disable unused OpenSSH authentication mechanisms.
[June 27, 2002, 9:24]
Nokia launches first phone-based VPN
News In addition to 3DES, Nokia's VPN client will also support Nokia's own Challenge Response Authentication Cryptographic Key (Crack) encryption, which is currently before the IETF standards body. Grace said the reason for including Crack support is...
[March 15, 2002, 16:00]
ProCurve Switch 2610-24-PWR review
Reviews The 2610 also supports the simultaneous use of its various authentication options on each port. For example, one person could use a smartcard and another user in the same port could use password authentication.
[May 14, 2008, 16:08]
Business Bloggers Leave Blogs Open To Hackers
Blog Use Captcha or other user authentication before allowing a comment post Don’t allow reader comments without authentication or moderation Corporate bloggers need to pay as much attention to the security of their blogs as they do in writing them, to...
[November 10, 2008, 7:28]
Barclays rolls out contactless debit card
News The card uses dynamic data authentication — in which a unique secret code is generated to authenticate each transaction — while the chip contains different information than the magnetic strip, to prevent cloning.
[March 2, 2009, 13:55]
