Tech Center Authentication
Dark Reading's Authentication Tech Center is your portal to all the news, product information, technical data, and other information related to the topic of computer user authentication and certification. Written for executives and businesspeople as well as security and IT professionals, the AuthenticationTech Center is a single community dedicated to a single idea: ensuring that computer users are who they say they are.
Featured Commentary
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Kelly Jackson HigginsScan My Eyeball, Already
Could consumers be the catalyst for the password's ultimate demise?
News
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Startup To Offer 'Human' Authentication
Identify Security Software Inc. will launch next week and preview new technology that eschews passwords and biometrics
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Twitter Adds SMS As Second Factor Of Authentication
Phone will be second means of verifying user identity, Twitter says
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The Future Of Web Authentication
After years of relying on passwords, technology vendors -- and enterprises -- are ready for new methods of proving user identity.
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Consumers Want Biometrics, Survey Finds
New Ponemon Institute study shows disillusionment and problems with passwords in online transactions
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Apple Patches Password Reset Vulnerability
Bug wouldn't have been blocked by Apple's new two-factor iTunes authentication due to system's three-day waiting period
More Stories
- Good News From Google: Account Hijacking Down
- Tech Insight: New CA Group Has Big Names, Small Impact
- Major Certificate Authorities Unite In The Name Of SSL Security
- Symantec/VeriSign Expands Encryption Options For SSL Digital Certificates
- New Security Industry Alliance, Startup Company Promise Revolution In Authentication
By The Numbers
Certificates The Biggest Authenticator
Certificates still outpace other authenticators within the enterprise. Meanwhile, in spite of technological improvements, biometrics is still used by less than a quarter of organizations.
Commentary
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Rethinking Identity Management
By Tim Wilson
Secret identities are a good thing. Multiple identities? Not so much
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Cisco Reports Some IOS Passwords Weakly Hashed
Type 4 plain-text user passwords on Cisco IOS and Cisco IOS XE devices are hashed not according to spec, but with no salt and just one SHA-256 iteration. Working around the problem can be clumsy
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The Road To Hell Is Authenticated By Facebook
OAuth allows us to log into many sites using familiar credentials, from Twitter, Facebook, Google or Microsoft. The main author of the original OAuth 1.0 spec says these giants took it and made OAuth 2.0 a monstrous, complex, and insecure mess that has already brought us significant vulnerabilities
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Online And Physical User Identities
Some data-owning businesses are getting into the Internet authentication market -- and that's good news
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Silent Authentication
Authenticating users without explicit login
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In This Issue
- Endpoint Security: End user security requires layers of tools and training as employees use more devices and apps.
- Security Isn't A Piece Of Cake: It's time we rethink the conventional wisdom about security layering.
- BYOD Is Here To Stay: Trying to keep employees' devices off the network is futile.







