• Yubico at RSA 2017 – Our Hardware Beats Your Malware It’s that time of year again! We’re heading back to the RSA Conference in San Francisco to show off our latest and greatest at booth #N4421. Keeping online data, accounts, and identities protected is a challenge, and it’s abundantly clear that usernames and passwords are the weakest defense. Daily breaches, hacks, and evolving phishing techniques […] Read more
• 3 Top Things to Consider When Implementing FIDO U2F With Your Service Now more than ever, security must be built into everything. By leveraging open standards, instead of building security protocols from the ground up, organizations can provide strong authentication faster than ever before. We created the Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) protocol together with Google several years ago and offered it the world for free along with […] Read more
• Can Two-Factor Protect Democracy? Millions of people use YubiKeys all across the globe, and our customers often share how they use YubiKeys at work and for their personal accounts. Now and then we hear a unique story from a new perspective that catches our attention. Sometimes these stories prove the value of what we are working on, in this […] Read more
• We hope to USB-C you at CES! Each year the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) ushers in the new year by revealing the latest in tech, and we’re excited to take part. This year, our CEO is speaking on a security panel, and we’re showing off our new YubiKey 4C with a USB-C design! Yes, Apple fans! We heard your lament over absent […] Read more
• U2F Security Key Cuts Google AdWords Fraud After a successful deployment of FIDO U2F enabled YubiKeys for all its staff, Google is now seeing the benefits of offering the technology to its customers with AdWords accounts. Hijacking of online advertising accounts not only costs customers whose accounts get bumped offline, but Google loses revenue when those accounts are dormant. The Association of […] Read more
• Give the Gift Security Geeks Love to Get ‘Tis the season to be jolly and reflect on everything we’re thankful for. It’s been an incredible year at Yubico, and we’re delighted YubiKeys continue to make news this gift giving season. We’ve compiled our favorite gift guides because these are just too awesome not to share. And yes, we’re on each of them! PCWorld 5 […] Read more
• Dreamforce 2016 – FIDO U2F YubiKey Log In to Salesforce Momentum is the motion of a moving body, measured as a product of its mass and velocity. Today, we see the mass and velocity of the world’s largest cloud ecosystem get behind FIDO Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) strong authentication. At this week’s Dreamforce 2016, conference attendees will get the first look at new native support […] Read more
• Lock down your login with YubiKey “78 percent [of Americans] strongly or somewhat agree it is important that companies, government entities and other stakeholders work together to find new ways of securing accounts beyond the use of passwords.” – National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) Strong Authentication Survey, July 2016 Research is clear — the world needs new and better ways of […] Read more
• Over A Dozen Services Supporting FIDO U2F Updated Oct. 10, 2016 to include U2F support added to Opera browser, Salesforce Creating standards is hard work that only sweetens when the market starts to arrive and validate the effort with real world deployments. On June 22, Bitbucket, GitLab, and Sentry all released support for FIDO U2F strong authentication in their cloud-based products. None of […] Read more
• U2F, OIDC Team Up For Strong Authentication, Federation The New York Times sits elegantly secured behind authentication technology that combines a U2F-enabled YubiKey and standardized identity federation built on OpenID Connect (OIDC). It’s a colorful twist for a newspaper first published in 1851 and famously known as The Gray Lady. But linked with Google and Yubico, the trio is part of an identity […] Read more