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Yubico has been named a “Cool Vendor in NFC 2013″ by Gartner, Inc., one of the world’s leading information technology research and advisory companies. Each year, Gartner identifies new Cool Vendors in key technology areas and publishes a series of research reports highlighting these innovative vendors and their products & services.  Yubico is recognized for the
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Yubico has joined FIDO Alliance as a board member, and will be a part of a working group that Google is creating to focus on open authentication standard work for strong, universal second-factor tokens. The working group will continue the work that was presented earlier this year in an IEEE paper and Wired, based on a
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To to learn how you use the YubiKey with BrowserID, a new open identity initiative, please check out this video from a BrowserID developer: https://vimeo.com/64514090 BrowserID was introduced in mid 2011 by the Mozilla Project. It addresses the same problem as OpenID and SAML, as well as the common OAuth or OpenID-based login-with-an external-account (such
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Online identity proofing service miiCard can prove an individual’s identity to the level of an offline photo ID check in minutes and purely online. By now adding YubiKey authentication to miiCard’s bank level ID verification service, the most secure and high value transactions can be performed online. Read more about how miiCard and YubiKey can
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The recent Wired news and my identity vision blog have generated a great deal of interest from both Yubico customers and media. Here are the answers to some of the questions which we have received. As the new open authentication protocol, developed by Google and with contribution from Yubico and NXP, does not yet have it’s own
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The Yubico team will be attending the RSA conference in San Francisco, February 25th – 28th. We will have the YubiKey NEO on demonstration, featuring NFC functions like the OATH TOTP generator for Android and LastPass. Come see us at the OATH Pavillion, Booth #829. To get a free entrance to the exhibits, please use coupon code
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Wired Magazine recently announced that Google is working on a new identity protocol as an alternative to legacy username/password login. The protocol is designed to be integrated across a wide range of authentication hardware, including SIM cards, Yubikey NEOs or a ring you carry on your finger. It is primarily based on open standards, so not
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60 years ago the car industry and our society faced a security problem similar to the challenges facing online identity today. It was a time when the car changed our modern society by delivering on its promise of freedom and speed, but security and safety measures were overlooked; there were no seatbelts in cars. In
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Some people are concerned about the risk of storing cryptographic secrets on Android devices – for example, those used to generate One Time Passcodes (OTP) from Google Authenticator.  The production YubiKey NEO is the perfect companion to Android devices with NFC support.  By bringing your YubiKey NEO close to the back of the Android device
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The YubiKey NEO differs from the standard YubiKey as it can become a composite USB device – presenting both a HID (Keyboard) and CCID (SmartCard) device to the host.  This allows us to support all the great features of the standard YubiKey and add new support for SmartCard functions.  Our last NEO post described the
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