He envisages an authentication system that could be used to restrict access to some online content to those who subscribe to multi-channel television.
If Craigslist had implemented an authentication system that required a Facebook account in order to post to craigslist, THAT would be evidence of the trend you so desperately want to be true.
The techie airport security systems now all the rage are old hat at EDS. It installed a handprint-authentication system in 1998 that allows citizens to clear immigration in seconds at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport.
The techie airport security systems that are all the rage are old hat at EDS. It installed a handprint-authentication system in 1998 that allows citizens to clear immigration in seconds at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport.
UltraViolet is a common file format and digital rights authentication system designed to allow a digital copy of a film or television show bought from any vendor physical or electronic to be played on any one of 12 devices owned by up to six members of a household, either via download or streaming from the cloud.
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To this aim, Upadhyay said he and Grosse have been working with the FIDO Allance, an industry group that was formed last summer to address the problems caused by the current system of password authentication.
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Sadly it seems that immediately after making the paranoid happy by instituting two-step authentication a pretty massive flaw in Cupertino's system was discovered and first reported by The Verge.
Ashkan Soltani, an independent privacy and security researcher, said such a move would give attackers "a toehold" in Twitter's internal network, potentially allowing them either to sniff out user information as it traveled across the company's system or break into specific areas, such as the authentication servers that process users' passwords.
In the past, multi-factor authentication was used mostly by large corporations because the cost of deploying the system and managing the tokens was so high.
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In particular the web giant is exploring hardware authentication options and experimenting with a device called YubiKey -- a USB-based token system.
When a consumer signed up to the Vodafone system wants to pay for online goods, they will be directed to an authentication page that asks them for identification details.
The web site administration for this system, a system that can be used to disable automobiles, is protected by simple password authentication that is open to brute force attack.
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