The Diver and the YubiKey

If you are driving on highway 101 between Palo Alto and San Francisco in the coming couple of weeks, you may come across a billboard with a diver holding up a YubiKey. The same diver also appears on our website homepage. The photo was shot by Alessio, principal engineer at Yubico, from his adventure under 20 meters of water in the Philippines.

The same image inspired Josh, web developer at Yubico, to try logging into his email underwater with a waterproof phone and YubiKey. And yes, it worked! Please check out the short video below that Josh and other members of our team just created.

At Yubico, we highly regard our adventurous and multi-talented engineers. Last year, we doubled our engineering team in Stockholm, Palo Alto and Seattle. This year we are doubling again. If you are a software or hardware engineer who wants to make the internet safer for everyone – on land or underwater – we welcome you to apply for our open job positions!

Talk to our teamTalk to our team

Share this article:


  • Cybersecurity in 2025 – part two: Insights and predictions from Yubico’s expertsIn part one of our 2025 cybersecurity predictions, we highlighted insights from our experts on the topic of passkeys, digital identity wallets and the threats of AI-driven phishing – areas that saw a lot of focus in 2024, and ones that we expect to continue being a major focus this year. If you missed our […]Read morecritical infrastructurefederal governmentfinancial servicespredictions
  • Cybersecurity in 2025: Insights and predictions from Yubico’s expertsWith 2024 behind us, we saw another challenging year in the world of cybersecurity – highlighted by new and evolving threats like Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven phishing and increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks overall. Yubico’s September Global State of Authentication Survey confirmed the challenges, even underscoring the potential risks of these new threats. The report emphasized the […]Read moreAIdigital identity walletspasskeyspredictions
  • State of Global Authentic(age)ion: A look at cybersecurity habits by generationsNo generations were left untouched when it came to the threat of hackers in 2024: from the impact of political shakeups, to increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks targeting consumers, critical industries and infrastructures, the world was on high alert. Fueled by a dramatic increase in phishing attacks circumventing certain forms of legacy multi-factor authentication (MFA), as […]Read moreState of Global Authenticationsurvey
  • Yubico named finalists of German digital identity innovation competitionIn 2023, Yubico began collaborating on an exciting open standards identity project – wwWallet – to shape the future of digital identity across Europe and beyond. The project saw immediate success solving problems for global identity, and was submitted in the German SPRIN-D European Digital Identity (EUDI) Funke competition which aims to develop and test […]Read moreEU Digital Identity WalletEUDIwwWalet