authentication

A U.K.-based security researcher has shared details of a recently patched Facebook vulnerability that he discovered and for which he received $20,000 via the the social …

Ping Identity announced PingFederate 7, an upgrade to its identity bridge software and Cloud Identity Management Platform. The release delivers standards-based user …

Recently, Twitter has introduced 2-factor authentication – the latest in a long list of large-scale web services that have taken this step including Google, Microsoft …

Businesses today use up to 50 on-premises applications and 25 cloud-based applications on average, so identity and access management (IAM) technologies to secure data and …

Mt. Gox is the the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, and as such it and its users are being repeatedly targeted by attackers. Some two months ago, it battled a massive …

Windows 8.1 is scheduled to be released at the end of 2013, and among the various changes that Microsoft aims to implement in it is native support for fingerprint readers, so …

Zoho launched Zoho Vault, the secure online password manager for teams and businesses. It establishes a central repository that offers unmatched security and complete data …

Centrify announced Centrify for Office 365, a solution for Active Directory-based single sign-on, user provisioning and mobile management for Office 365. The Azure-based …

“Professional” social networking website LinkedIn is the latest in a string of popular online services and communities that have introduced optional 2-step …

Motorola is trying to get back into the swing of things when it comes to innovation, and has been working on a number of fresh ideas regarding the future of authentication. At …

Amazon launched Login with Amazon, a new service that will enable the over 200 million active Amazon customers to securely and simply login to apps, games, and websites. …

2013 seems the be the year of 2-factor (or 2-step) authentication. Following the introduction of the feature by the likes of Apple, Microsoft, Twitter and WordPress, Evernote …