Author: Stina Ehrensvard
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YubiKeys Extend Innovation In Education 50% off trays of 50 YubiKey 4 and YubiKey 4 Nano while supplies last! Special Offer for Schools! Stoking technology’s fire has historically been a job for the education sector, from universities involved in early ARPANET testing, to the first popular web browser from student Marc Andreessen, and the curious Apple 1 computers that took […] Read more education -
10X Growth With World’s Largest Brands “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” — Alan Kay, American computer scientist In 2012, shortly after Yubico’s CTO and I had moved from Stockholm to Silicon Valley, we were invited to a meeting at Google’s headquarters. We were nine people, from seven different countries, who had gathered around a conference […] Read more about Yubico authentication mobile authentication U2F -
FIDO U2F Now Offers Contactless, Tokenless, Passwordless Mobile Authentication 2016 is the year when FIDO U2F will unfold its promise of a “universal” second factor. Successfully deployed with Gmail, Dropbox, and GitHub in 2015, the U2F open standard is now expanding to mobile devices. At the ShowStoppers @ CES (Consumer Electronics Show) event in Las Vegas, Yubico is demonstrating the first FIDO U2F-certified, NFC-enabled YubiKey device […] Read more mobile authentication passwordless U2F -
Why YubiKey Wins When we ask our customers why they chose the YubiKey, the most common answer is ease-of-use. If you get a job at one of the large internet companies here in Silicon Valley, you are likely to also get a laptop with a YubiKey inside the USB port. But you may not know it’s a YubiKey. […] Read more about Yubico -
W3C Submission Hints At Strong Future For U2F As with any growing standards organization, the FIDO Alliance is evolving. Today, the organization marks a glimpse of where it’s headed and how U2F will help make secure login easy and available for all internet users. The FIDO Alliance has submitted to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) a set of specifications defining a Web […] Read more FIDO Alliance U2F -
Launching The 4th Generation YubiKey Today is historic as we launch our 4th generation YubiKey. It is built on high-performance, secure elements, and enables stronger and faster crypto operations. We are also expanding beyond our authentication heritage to code signing: Our new touch-to-sign feature was brought to life with our friends at Docker. For every generation of YubiKeys, we have […] Read more about Yubico YubiKey 4 -
Dropbox Adds Support For FIDO U2F, YubiKeys Today, cloud storage giant Dropbox announced to its more than 400 million users that it now supports FIDO U2F, including YubiKey security keys, for strong two-factor authentication. On the company’s blog, Dropbox said users now can protect their files with U2F-powered devices in addition to the current feature of a one-time code sent to a mobile […] Read more FIDO U2F security key Works with YubiKey -
A Milestone for Wireless U2F The FIDO Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) protocol passed a significant milestone last month. They added new transport protocols that emphatically answer questions about support for mobile devices. Yubico is a leading contributor to the U2F specs, including the USB transport and the new specs for Bluetooth and Near Field Communication (NFC). We are now excited […] Read more mobile authentication nfc U2F -
Yubico Meets President Obama Last Friday I biked to Stanford to discuss online identity protection with the President of the United States. President Obama is a man passionate about the Internet and dedicated to helping secure it. After our short one-on-one conversation about Yubico solutions, he took the stage at the Stanford Memorial Auditorium. In front of him he had […] Read more about Yubico government -
The Key and the Princess After Silicon Valley, Sweden is considered one of the world’s more interesting tech innovation hubs, giving birth to global brands such as Skype, MySQL, Spotify, King – and the rising Yubico! The growing and fruitful cross-pollenization between Silicon Valley and Sweden is the reason Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, and her husband, Prince Daniel, this […] Read more about Yubico