The CEO of archiving service Evernote this week said his company will soon release branded hardware with partners, as it moves toward creating its own devices. "We won't actually do the manufacturing, but we'll do the co-design together," ...
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Following?similar initiatives?by Apple, Google and Facebook, Microsoft is enabling two-factor authentication for its Microsoft Account service, the log-on service for many of its online and desktop products.? "With this release, you can ...
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A lawsuit could put a crimp in Microsoft's reported plans to implement two-factor authentication for users of its consumer cloud services. Two-factor authentication – which supplements a user's password with a PIN or code generated ...
Apple this week followed the lead of rivals like Facebook, Google and Microsoft, offering two-step authentication to help customers secure their Apple IDs against hacking. The new feature is designed to block unauthorised changes to ...
Apple this week followed the lead of rivals like Facebook, Google and Microsoft, offering two-step authentication to help customers secure their Apple IDs against hacking. The new feature is designed to block unauthorized changes to ...
Rights advocacy groups and security practitioners remain on opposite ends of the spectrum on the merits of sharing information as a means to improve cyber security. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Center for Democracy and ...
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Evernote is speeding up its plans to offer two-factor authentication to users following a recent data breach that exposed user names, email addresses and encrypted passwords. The company, which makes note-taking software, disclosed on its ...
Facebook has patched a serious vulnerability that could have allowed attackers to easily gain access to private user account data and control accounts by tricking users into opening specifically crafted links, a Web application security ...
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Burger King saw a surprising upside after its Twitter account was compromised on Monday: tens of thousands of people began following its account. Those people may have started following the burger chain's feed in hopes of seeing more ...
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Google thinks it might have found an answer to the vexing problem of forgotten or weak passwords: "physical" passwords, which might come in the form of a piece of jewelry such as a ring. In a research paper, two of its engineers write ...
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Showing what can happen when companies don't periodically review network logs, a software developer working for a large U.S. critical infrastructure company hired a Chinese firm to do his job so he could spend time surfing Reddit and ...
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Despite news that Google’s security team is experimenting with ways to replace passwords for logging in to websites, security experts have warned that passwords should not yet be tossed. Many experts have, however, acknowledged that ...
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The official Dropbox app has arrived for Windows 8.It's been close to two months since Microsoft announced at the Build developer conference that the online file storage and sharing app was coming. Dropbox for the Windows UI is almost ...
Good Technology announced Good Vault, a system for adding two-factor authentication to the iPhone 4 and 4S for access to Good for Enterprise email. One of the Good Vault options features a smart-card reader that can be attached to an ...
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New Team at GoldKey Tackles Enterprise Security Challenges with Custom-Designed Solutions GoldKey Security Corporation today announced the creation of a GoldKey Special Problems Team. The team was organized to assist enterprise customers ...
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