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Home Office agency buys biometric security
News The SIA is a newly formed organisation that regulates and licenses the private security industry and has opted for a biometric authentication system to boost its own security. Biometric authentication systems have been installed to give remote...
[April 16, 2004, 8:35]
Apple's cheeky TV ads exploit Vista delay
Talkback Coviello said in an interview on Tuesday morning in Sydney: "Microsoft had said they would include the ability to support all kinds of One Time Password (OTP) and challenge-response type authentication in Vista.
[May 4, 2006, 11:58]
Amazon's cloud gets multi-factor authentication
News Fraudulent usage becomes much more difficult because a successful login combines something you know (your email address and password) with something you have (the authentication device). The AWS Multi-Factor Authentication (AWS MFA) security system...
[September 1, 2009, 15:45]
Gates predicts death of the password
News SecurID is the best known two-factor authentication system and is used by many large enterprises. Creating a specific system for Windows should mean that rolling out strong authentication across an enterprise will be far easier and cheaper.
[February 25, 2004, 7:20]
Sun dials up Java for PC security
News As expected in Sun's PC authentication vision, people will authenticate by combining a password with a physical token that has their identity, such as a cellphone, a credit card or a corporate identification tag, Schwartz said.
[February 24, 2004, 10:10]
Companies urged to move beyond passwords
News Some security experts have been urging companies to use two-factor authentication — where users present a second form of identification as well as their password — for some time, though not all agree it is the way forward.
[September 14, 2005, 16:40]
Is the age of the password over?
News Some analysts do see the password fading as the primary means of authentication, particularly for online banking. While technology providers have focused on hardware devices as a secondary means of identity authentication, research has come up with...
[February 23, 2005, 15:10]
Mobile phones key to e-commerce security
News Right now, in both cases, authentication is usually by password or PIN, although two-factor authentication, in which the user has to have some sort of token as well as knowing a password, is considered more secure.
[September 4, 2002, 9:36]
Oracle secures identity management
News It can automatically provision a person's name and password on several systems and can also issue digital certificates based on the public key infrastructure (PKI) system for authentication. Oracle executives say that a centralised authentication...
[October 16, 2003, 16:40]
Unix/Linux shops -- beware of Kerberos hole
News The Kerberos Administration daemon (kadmind), which is used in connection with Kerberos authentication, contains a buffer overflow vulnerability in many implementations, mostly affecting Linux/Unix. Exploiting this vulnerability would give a remote...
[November 11, 2002, 16:54]
Microsoft aims Passport at credit cards
News Passport is an authentication service that stores users' personal information and passwords and lets them surf the Web without having to constantly re-enter data at different sites. Arcot, which competes against Cyota, Orbiscom and others, is the...
[July 9, 2002, 9:31]
Practical examples for establishing Web service security in .NET
News The method then performs the authentication you need by verifying the user ID and password variables contained within the secureCtx object. If the LoginUser() method determines that the user is valid, it generates an authentication ticket that's...
[May 6, 2003, 13:08]
Exchanging Outlook for Ximian? Here's how
News Of course, if you're connecting to Exchange and a Windows network, then there are going to be authentication issues involved. Figure L shows a view of the initial authentication. Here's an Evolution authentication screen.
[October 12, 2004, 11:00]
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]
802.1x - Securing the wireless world
News Wireless networks must therefore prevent user authentication details from being stolen during log-in, protect the privacy of data transmitted subsequently and make sure that users establish the right connection no matter where they are physically...
[April 24, 2002, 20:54]
Anti-Lock Brake Systems Manufacturer Grants Employees Remote Access to Critical Systems Via VeriSign Unified Authentication
White Papers SABS chose to implement VeriSign Unified Authentication and today, many employees have been given One-Time Password (OTP) tokens and can access SABS's SAP R/3 enterprise resource planning system, as well as the company's intranet when they are...
[September 19, 2009, 1:22]
Bulwark Systems Case Study: Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Limited (IPCL)
White Papers The company wanted user wise Internet Access with Authentication (Login & Password), integration with Parent Proxy Server in a VLAN Network, and daily Access Log Reports to monitor internet usage. IPCL installed & configured SecuraNET SentinelXS...
[July 13, 2007, 1:00]
Protect Your Data Via Managed Code and the Windows Vista Smart Card APIs
White Papers Smart cards are a compelling alternative to the weak link of authentication systems: passwords. Via an embedded cryptographic processor, smart cards provide a very secure and easy-to-use authentication mechanism.
[September 11, 2009, 2:03]
Single Sign-On: Finding the Best Fit
White Papers This paper looks at the current standing of single sign-on authentication technology and explores the benefits, security concerns, costs and Return On Investment (ROI) that may be obtained from its inclusion into any of the IT networks.
[September 15, 2007, 1:01]
Obsession
Downloads Using LiveJournal's secure challenge/response encrypted authentication, your password is stored inside your Keychain and never sent out in the clear. Obsession is a lightweight friend list client for LiveJournal that uses Growl, a global...
[June 21, 2005, 8:00]
