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Are Passwords Really Free? A Closer Look At The Hidden Costs Of Password Security.
White Papers To build a case for strong authentication in the conduct of e-business, this white paper from RSA Security Inc.begins by calculating the hidden costs associated with password management. As the paper illustrates, when costs associated with user...
[November 16, 2004, 2:00]
Are Passwords Really Free?: A Closer Look At The Hidden Costs Of Password Security
White Papers Unlike password management systems, strong authentication delivers the security needed to safely conduct business online. In this paper, RSA Security explores the total cost of ownership (TCO) associated with password security, helping enterprises...
[June 10, 2005, 3:00]
Are Passwords Really Free? - A Closer Look At The Hidden Costs Of Password Security
White Papers Unlike password management systems, strong authentication delivers the security needed to safely conduct business online. In this paper, RSA Security explores the total cost of ownership (TCO) associated with password security, helping enterprises...
[August 23, 2005, 6:00]
Eliminate The Security Risks & Reduce The Costs Of Password Management
White Papers As a result, password management—the ability to effectively and efficiently manage passwords as a critical part of the user’s identity—is a key component of identity management. Password management leverages the user’s identity to provide secure...
[May 27, 2004, 1:03]
Eliminate Security Risks - Reduce The Costs Of Password Management
White Papers It discusses the need for a password management solution, and it presents the criteria that the solution should meet. Finally, the paper presents the Novell Nsure password management solutions. It describes how they enable organizations to address...
[March 2, 2004, 11:20]
Security Briefs: Password Minder Internals
White Papers Password Minder encodes one's master password into a byte array and uses a unique salt value that is stored in one's password file to initialize the algorithm. Password Minder uses a unique key to encrypt each piece of data stored in one's password...
[March 15, 2006, 0:01]
Password Self-Service: Taking The Strain Off Of Helpdesks
White Papers Novell offers a solution through Password Self-service capabilities, which enforce strong security policies while providing ways for users to manage their own passwords - even when they have forgotten them.
[September 15, 2007, 1:01]
Try A 1337 Solution For Password Security
Talkback Lou1$ville or L0u! ville ? Better add another member of staff to the support desk - in my experience many users will remember the word (Town, pet's name, etc) but will forget the correct combination of complexity characters - upper, lower, digits...
[January 26, 2006, 12:47]
Solving The Weakest Link: Password Security - A Comprehensive Review
White Papers Ensuring the security and privacy of digital assets is one of the key concerns facing corporations today. The Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) reported over 70,000 security incidents in just the first 6 months of 2003.
[November 30, 2005, 0:00]
Password Security Guidelines
White Papers This document introduces the basic concepts of network authentication. In particular, it focuses on the use of user-IDs and passwords to verify the identity of users. Various strategies for selecting strong, hard-to-guess passwords are then discussed.
[September 21, 2006, 0:00]
Gates Predicts Death Of The Password
News During his keynote speech at the RSA Security conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, Microsoft's chairman Bill Gates predicted the demise of the traditional password because it cannot "meet the challenge" of keeping critical information secure.
[February 25, 2004, 7:20]
RSA Europe: Would You Give Your Password Away For A Bar Of Chocolate?
Blog However a few nuggets did emerge including the factoid that apparently seven out of ten people would give away their password for a bar of chocolate! I've been thinking about that and yeah - why not - get a free Yorkie and then just change your...
[October 23, 2007, 10:28]
Proactive Password Auditor
Downloads Proactive Password Auditor is a password security test tool that's designed to allow Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003-based systems administrators to identify and close security holes in their networks.
[December 20, 2006, 14:31]
Salesforce Tight-lipped After Phishing Attack
News Salesforce.com is refusing to reveal details of a security breach caused when one of its employees surrendered their password in a phishing attack against the company. To be clear, a phisher tricked someone into disclosing a password, but this...
[November 7, 2007, 14:17]
The Design And Analysis Of Graphical Passwords
White Papers In this paper we propose and evaluate new graphical password schemes that exploit features of graphical input displays to achieve better security than text-based passwords. In order to evaluate the security of one of our schemes, we devise a novel...
[October 6, 2003, 6:13]
Word's Password Feature 'not A Security Tool'
News A set of relatively simple instructions on how to bypass the security of a password-protected Word document was published on the Internet on Friday. David Bennie, Microsoft UK's Office product marketing manager, told ZDNet UK that although Word's...
[January 7, 2004, 16:40]
OpenOffice Password Crack Is Open To Abuse
News Security experts have warned that password recovery tools for OpenOffice, the open-source application suite, are vulnerable to abuse. The release of version 1.0.4 of Intelore's OpenOffice Password Recovery software on Thursday allows IT managers...
[April 23, 2007, 17:39]
Brute Force Attack On UNIX Passwords With SIMD Computer
White Papers In this paper we evaluate the security of the UNIX password scheme. We show that the UNIX password scheme is vulnerable to brute-force attack. We explain how a SIMD machine built in today's technology could "crack" any UNIX password in two days.
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
Mailman Flaw Gives Away Passwords
News A previously unknown vulnerability in Mailman, a popular open source program for managing mailing lists, has led to the theft of the password file for a well-known security discussion group. By specially crafting a Web address, an attacker can...
[February 11, 2005, 8:55]
Wireless Networks Lure Hackers
News On Thursday, Tim Newsham, a researcher for security firm @Stake, presented the details of weaknesses in the password system of wireless networks that could lead to a break in security in less than 30 seconds.
[July 13, 2001, 9:18]
