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SMS-based authentication is easy to implement and accessible to many users, but it is also insecure. Now NIST plans to drop it from its two-factor authentication guidelines
Eliminating passwords will take years, acknowledges the FIDO Alliance. But it says it is well on its way to a faster, easier and much more secure online authentication standard
Cloud access security brokers that take an API approach can provide more comprehensive security without impacting network performance
A security firm found lax use of email authentication systems by more than half of the world's top websites
The number of unauthorized attempts rose as criminals tried stolen passwords from other sites against GitHub accounts and successfully logged in to several of them
The compromises might be the result of recent data breaches from other websites that exposed user passwords
Japan's Mouse Computer will soon launch add-on sensors for any PC, helping to kill passwords in the process
The API, which shifts the authentication burden from users to their Android devices, will be available to developers by the end of the year
How IT can bring order and accountability to public cloud usage without getting in the way of progress
Developers and site owners can use Facebook's latest SDK to remove passwords from the login process