passwords
RSS passwordsA Process Approach to Protecting Privileged Accounts & Meeting Regulatory Compliance
White Paper This paper will present BeyondTrust PowerKeeper as a solution to secure passwords for privileged accounts in heterogeneous IT environments. This white paper outlines a sound process-based approach in protecting critical... [15 Oct 2009]
Rid your business of weak passwords and get collaborating
Comment All this has led organisations to turn to stronger forms of authentication than simple usernames and passwords, often in the form of security tokens that provide an extra layer of assurance that users are who they say... [15 Oct 2009]
Thousands of Hotmail account details posted online
News Hotmail account logins and passwords have been posted to a public forum following a phishing attack. Several thousand users are thought to be affected although the lists of Hotmail user credentials have since been... [06 Oct 2009]
An Overview and Competitive Analysis of the One Time Password (OTP) Market
White Paper As attackers become more daring and manipulative, information systems that rely on static passwords for security are a major risk factor and are often the key reason that those systems are breached, leaving the... [05 Oct 2009]
Scraping, Denial of Service, and Brute Force Attacks! Oh My!: Identifying and Controlling Automated Clients
White Paper Many systems will allow the use of weak passwords or cryptographic keys, and users will often choose easy to guess passwords, possibly found in a dictionary. Anti-Automation defenses are critical in... [05 Oct 2009]
The Fraudster Economy Model: The Dynamics of Operating a Business in the Underground
White Paper Phishing first gained traction in 1996 with hackers trying to steal America Online passwords from unsuspecting users. Today, it has evolved into a far more menacing criminal enterprise, with bands of fraudsters working... [05 Oct 2009]
User Centric Identity Management
White Paper Users are, for example, often required to memorise multiple passwords for accessing different services. Identity management is traditionally seen from the service providers' point of view, meaning that it is an activity... [04 Oct 2009]
Vacman Controller: HSM Integration Guide
White Paper The Vacman Controller allows the verification of passwords and signatures generated by a DIGIPASS. To verify these passwords, the Vacman Controller needs access to the parameters and secrets that were... [02 Oct 2009]
Identikey Server 3.1: Strong Authentication Solution for Enterprise Security
White Paper Regular static passwords are the weakest link in any security infrastructure, as they can easily be guessed, copied, exchanged, shared, and misused. Simple passwords are easy to remember but highly... [02 Oct 2009]
Vacman Controller: Integration Guide
White Paper After reading this paper one will understand how the Vacman Controller interacts with application and how it allows one to use the DIGIPASS dynamic passwords inside application. This White Paper guides one through the... [02 Oct 2009]
Cryptanalysis on Improved Remote User Authentication Scheme Preserving User Anonymity
White Paper Most of these schemes have the following good properties: the server has no password table; users can freely choose their own passwords; it demands only low communication and computation cost; mutual authentication is... [02 Oct 2009]
Unisys Takes Its Own Authentication Medicine
White Paper At the same time, techniques to defeat passwords have become more sophisticated, eroding the security that passwords once provided. Unisys is a large and diversified systems integrator with operations... [30 Sep 2009]
Bank Implements Comodo Two-Factor Authentication in Stages
White Paper The security of customer bank accounts depended on keeping passwords protected, but bank managers knew that customers don't always protect their passwords. With digital certificates on their computers,... [30 Sep 2009]
Is your data at risk?: Why physical security is insufficient for laptop computers
White Paper This paper examines the options, discusses why passwords alone are not sufficient and makes the case for strong data encryption. Evaluating the various data security options to protect your PCs can be challenging. [30 Sep 2009]
Facebook to kill Beacon: Info-sharing programme crumbles under privacy concerns
News And offering Facebook users the chance to register and log in to external sites without separate usernames and passwords gives Facebook Connect's marketing a slant of user convenience - and security, as some web users... [21 Sep 2009]
