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• Review: 7 password managers for Windows, Mac OS X, iOS, and Android

  By Serdar Yegulalp | 28 March, 2012 21:15

  I hate passwords. I hate coming up with them. I hate remembering them. I hate mistyping them four times in a row. And I hate getting locked out of whatever I'm trying to log into in the process.

• Startup with heavy Russian connections offers crypto authentication service

  By Ellen Messmer | 14 February, 2012 22:33

  Can a security startup based in Bedford, N.H., which relies on Russian cryptography expertise from Moscow, bring about a revolution in the way that users authenticate to gain access to websites today and secure data?

• RSA says 2012 will focus on mobile, cloud security

  By Tim Greene | 20 January, 2012 02:38

  Beyond addressing details about its big breach of 2011, RSA Security executives this week outlined its 2012 product strategy that is centered on three areas, mobility, anti-threat and cloud security.

• New system secures cellphones for Web transactions

  By Tim Greene | 07 December, 2011 08:29

  An experimental method for two-factor authentication to websites employs mobile phones in a new way to ensure that users' online accounts don't get hijacked.

• Google Apps admins can now reset sign-in cookies remotely

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 04 May, 2010 04:28

  Google Apps administrators can now remotely deactivate browser cookies that contain their end-users' sign-in credentials, a move designed to improve security in Google's hosted applications suite.

• IronKey rolls out secure online banking USB drive

  By Jeremy Kirk | 27 April, 2010 06:52

  IronKey rolled out its Trusted Access for Banking USB drive on Monday.

• VeriSign rolls out new Web site verification service

  By Jeremy Kirk | 24 February, 2010 04:30

  VeriSign is introducing a certification service that confirms whether a business is legitimate and that their Web site is free of malware.

• Hackers are defeating tough authentication, Gartner warns

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 16 December, 2009 03:57

  Security measures such as one-time passwords and phone-based user authentication, considered among the most robust forms of security, are no longer enough to protect online banking transactions against fraud, a new report from research firm Gartner Inc. warns.

• Security pro says new SSL attack can hit many sites

  By Robert McMillan | 22 November, 2009 08:17

  A Seattle computer security consultant says he's developed a new way to exploit a recently disclosed bug in the SSL protocol, used to secure communications on the Internet. The attack, while difficult to execute, could give attackers a very powerful phishing attack.

• MasterCard to authenticate online transactions by phone

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 17 November, 2009 07:41

  In the face of mounting threats from hackers, MasterCard will use mobile phones to improve security for online transactions, the company said on Monday.

• Secure telework without a VPN

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 20 October, 2009 00:27

  How to provide a secure telework environment without much overhead? That was the question facing Octagon Capital, a Toronto brokerage firm that ended up choosing an unusual hardware-and-cloud service from Route1.

• OpenID implementation works on mobile platforms

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 22 September, 2009 05:10

  Swedish company Accumulate has implemented a version of the OpenID standard for mobile phones.

• Facebook gives major boost to OpenID

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 19 May, 2009 05:20

  Facebook has adopted the OpenID user-identity framework to simplify how people register for and log into the social networking site.