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The process of confirming a user’s identity; commonly done through the use of passwords or digital certificates.
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UPEK and Agile Web Solutions Demo Eikon Fingerprint Reader and 1Password Password Manager Combination at Macworld

Published January 5, 2009, 5:30 pm, Centre Daily Times

UPEK®, Inc, the leading provider of fingerprint sensors embedded into laptop computers, and Agile Web Solutions, Inc. today announced that the companies will be demonstrating at Macworld the Eikon® Digital Privacy Manager integrated with 1Password Password Manager, enabling Mac users to access password-protected websites with the simple swipe of a finger. The companies will be previewing the ...

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Twitter-Savvy Hackers Tweak the Twitterati

Published January 5, 2009, 5:13 pm, New York Times

Life’s not so tweet over at Twitter these days. The microblogging company, which allows users to broadcast short messages to groups of followers, recently found itself the target of a wave of hacking and phishing attacks.

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Twitter hack strikes Obama, Britney Spears

Published January 5, 2009, 4:45 pm, ZDNet Australia

An unknown party has hacked into the Twitter accounts of high-profile users of the micro-blogging and social networking service such as US President-Elect Barack Obama, Britney Spears, and Fox News anchor Bill O'Riley.

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Five Reasons Why Authentication Still Matters -- and Still Isn't Fixed

Published January 5, 2009, 3:26 pm, Linux Today

Datamation: "Authentication is yesterday's problem, and it's been fixed. That's the conventional wisdom, at least, but it's a myth. Despite a flurry of new regulations, user names and passwords still rule the enterprise. Tokens and one-time-password generators are making inroads, but it's slow, plodding progress."

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Twitter Gets Hacked, Badly

Published January 5, 2009, 12:50 pm, TechCrunch

Phishing attacks, which hit Twitter over the weekend, are a sign a service has arrived (Facebook has the same problem). But someone hacking into Twitter's internal admin tools and compromising 33 high profile accounts , including President Elect Barack Obama, has Twitter users freaking out about what to do. Here is Twitter's official explanation :

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Elliptic Introduces Ellipsys Security Architecture Premier Security Software Solution for Embedded Systems

Published January 5, 2009, 12:21 pm, CanadaIT.com

OTTAWA, CANADA, December 17, 2008 - Security IP provider Elliptic today announced the launch of its Ellipsys Security Architecture (ESA). As a leading supplier of security IP for the last six years, Elliptic has developed and licensed a portfolio of robust embedded security products that encompass symmetric and asymmetric cryptography, IPsec, secure boot and content protection through DTCP.

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Tim Callan: MD5 Hack Interesting, But Not Threatening

Published January 5, 2009, 12:07 pm, SecurityFocus

MD5 Hack Interesting, But Not Threatening

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Famous Twitter Users Get Hacked; Who"™s to Blame?

Published January 5, 2009, 10:29 am, Mashable

Twitter is being blindsided today by a new wave of attacks, this time involving the takeover of the accounts of prominent users. Barack Obama, Britney Spears, CNN’s Rick Sanchez, Fox News, and Facebook’s official accounts are amongst those that have been targeted thus far, with each sending out an obviously fake message ranging from explicit comments to ads for online scams. Here’s what the Fox ...

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Updated: Twitter Security Collapses; Obama, Fox and Britney Accounts Hacked

Published January 5, 2009, 9:45 am, ReadWriteWeb

Days after a wave of phishing attacks fooled thousands of Twitter users, it appears that another security hole has been found by...someone. Obama's account, unused since election day, sent out an affiliate link to a survey with a gas card prize, Fox News said that "Bill O'Reily is gay" (not that there's anything wrong with that) and Britney Spears' made a lewd post about her anatomy. Rick ...

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HSBC Calls on Authentify® for Strong Out-of-Band Authentication for Online Accounts.

Published January 5, 2009, 8:30 am, Centre Daily Times

Authentify, the global leader in out-of-band authentication solutions, today announced HSBC has deployed Authentify’s services to protect online and remote transactions from fraud. HSBC, the world's largest bank by asset size is using Authentify’s services to automatically authenticate online users attempting certain transaction against HSBC accounts. The out-of-band process requires user or ...

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