Evernote's massive password reset last week was the most recent demonstration of leaky security around consumer locks and keys.
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For buildings that require additional security, like government offices, the keys can be combined with other forms of authentication, such as PIN numbers or biometrics.
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The certificates are important, he said, because secure use of web shops and other services revolve around interaction between the "master keys" and the lower level security credentials.
He has tried to convince the Obama administration that one of the keys to America's energy security lies in the oil and gas in the deep waters of the Gulf.
One of the keys to controlling the business impact of security breaches is to manage risk.
Bruce Schneier, a security guru, says that biometrics are unsuitable for use as keys because, unlike passwords or digital signatures, they are not secret, and cannot be changed, destroyed or declared invalid.
Security is handled through the phone or desktop app enabling you to share keys with your family as administrative users, normal users, one-off entry or even scheduled access.
Rather than having your entire chip be in the same security domain, he says, the most critical things like the management of cryptographic keys or the management of network connections or DRM systems can be isolated in separate transistors on the same chip.
"Concerns about smartcard security have increased with the wide availability of sophisticated tools and invasive techniques to discover the secrets and keys that traditionally protect devices from counterfeiting, tampering and theft-of-data, " said Pim Tuyls, CEO at Intrinsic-ID.
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On November, 2007, in order to sell its devices inside Russia, RIM provided its encryption keys to Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) which, in turn, provided access to the Federal Security Service (FSB).
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The Brand Keys 2012 Customer Loyalty Engagement Index reveals that consumers choose laptop computers on the basis of anything but security.
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