Password authentication contains a lot of assumptions about security and trust. Encrypted SSH tunnels and public key verification are two common ways to ensure that your password is not compromised in ...

Officials at Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services, also known as CITES, have recently revamped their network’s Bluestem system to increase security for users. Bluestem, a service ...

In the current state there are many authentication schemes and most of these suffer from many weaknesses. Some of them are based on the physical and behavioral properties of the user, and some others ...

PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a patent to Privakey, Inc. for innovations in password free authentication. Technologies that simplify authentication and ...

In an effort to simplify authentication for its services, Yahoo has introduced a new mechanism that allows users to log in with temporary passwords that are sent to their mobile phones. If this sounds ...

Microsoft is once again emphasizing that passwords are a thing of the past, while passkeys represent the future of secure, ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Like most, I have several online accounts, and it seems like I am constantly reminded to ...

Sixty percent of respondents hit by an authentication-related cyberattack in the last 12 months agreed that they could have avoided it with a passwordless system. shw Authentication-related attacks ...

A number of factors inspired me to take a closer look at the Yubikey. For starters, it is such a simple and elegant solution to two of the major problems the security industry is facing these days: ...

It seems like every day there's news that a new site or service has been hacked. The intruders make off with usernames and passwords, and even if they're encrypted the service forces users to change ...