Yahoo is turning up the heat up on its developer platform, which is turning out to be a key battle ground as all the major portals (AOL, Google, MSN, Yahoo, eBay, Amazon, etc.) try to open up their ...

We wouldn’t consider Windows authentication as a feasible strategy as you cannot expose your service over the Internet if you leverage Windows authentication. Forms authentication uses the ASP.Net ...

A number of factors inspired me to take a closer look at the Yubikey. For starters, it is such a simple and elegant solution to two of the major problems the security industry is facing these days: ...

As more companies begin to rely on Web-based applications, questions arise about the security of such applications. One weak link in the security chain is user authentication. User IDs and passwords ...

No matter how big your company is or what it does, security is a primary consideration when choosing a Web service for all applications. This first in a series of three articles describes the 10 most ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

This week the official Arduino team have announced the introduction of two factor authentication (2FA) on the Arduino Web services, providing an additional security layer to users accounts. The ...

Two-factor authentication protecting Outlook Web Access and Office 365 portals can be bypassed-and the situation likely cannot be fixed, a researcher has disclosed. Enterprises running Exchange Server ...

Weblog vendors are steering the technology toward corporate collaboration needs with the addition of security, personalization, and integration features. This week Traction Software plans to roll out ...