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YubiHSM 2 is here: Providing root of trust for servers and computing devices If you were to ask someone who Yubico is or what we do, you’ll likely get the answer, ‘YubiKeys’, and rightfully so. YubiKeys are our foundation, and at the core of our mission to provide tried-and-true multi-factor authentication since 2008. They are used and loved by some of the world’s largest companies and by millions […] Read more enterprise security Hardware Security Module YubiHSM 2 -
Growing our security and open standards team In celebration of this week’s National Cybersecurity Awareness Month theme, The Internet Wants YOU: Consider a Career in Cybersecurity, we asked three of our security and open standards rockstars — Jesper Johansson, Torbjörn Granlund, and John Bradley — to share their career background, and the journey that led them to Yubico. Jesper Johansson, Chief Security […] Read more about Yubico -
iPhone support for YubiKey OTP via NFC Will my YubiKey NEO work on iPhones now that iOS 11 added some NFC support? It’s a fair question – one that we’ve been getting a lot of. This blog explains some of the details about iPhone support for YubiKey OTP to help bring some clarity to YubiKey users. First, it’s important to understand the […] Read more iPhone nfc OTP -
Catch today’s webinar: Next-gen Identity Management Are your users really who they claim to be? What is the impact to your business if your end-users are registering as fake individuals, or impersonating others? If the identity of your users matters to your business, then you’ll want to join today’s webinar hosted by SC Magazine. Identity, the internet, and your business—architecting your […] Read more identity and access management -
Yubico Partners with Google’s Advanced Protection Program Today, Google formally announced their Advanced Protection Program designed to safeguard the personal Google Accounts of those most at risk of targeted online attacks, including journalists, business leaders, and political campaign teams. Yubico has partnered with Google on this initiative as part of our ongoing commitment to working with people at risk including human rights […] Read more Google Works with YubiKey -
Infineon RSA Key Generation Issue Infineon Technologies, one of Yubico’s secure element vendors, has informed us of a security issue in their cryptographic firmware library. The issue affects TPMs in millions of computers, and multiple smart card and security token vendors. For Yubico, the issue weakens the strength of on-chip RSA key generation, and affects some use cases for the […] Read more RSA -
The key to GDPR compliance and online privacy protection The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a new set of mandates aimed to protect the privacy of internet users. From May, 2018, any organization operating, storing or processing data of EU citizens will be subject to the requirements. With the threat of hefty fines of €20M or 4% of worldwide turnover for non-compliance, […] Read more compliance FIDO U2F security key -
Creating the Unphishable Security Key How the FIDO U2F security key and YubiKey stop phishing and man-in-the-middle attacks Security is never stronger than its weakest link, and that weakest link is often the user. Not surprisingly, phishing attacks that target users are increasing not only in volume, but also in sophistication. Google knows that. Recently, the search giant updated their […] Read more FIDO U2F security key phishing U2F -
Our Family is Growing! YubiKey 4C Nano Unveiled at Microsoft Ignite Today, at Microsoft Ignite, we proudly announced the first-ever — and the world’s smallest — USB-C authentication device of its kind: the YubiKey 4C Nano. The YubiKey 4C Nano form factor shares unique features with two of its siblings — the YubiKey 4C and YubiKey 4 Nano. Similar to the 4C, the YubiKey 4C Nano […] Read more YubiKey YubiKey 4C Nano -
Firefox Nightly enables support for FIDO U2F Security Keys This week, Mozilla enabled support for FIDO U2F (Universal 2nd Factor) security keys in the pre-beta release of Firefox, Firefox Nightly. Firefox is the second largest internet browser by user base. In the near future, 80% of the world’s desktop users, including Chrome and Opera users, will benefit from the open authentication standard and YubiKey […] Read more FIDO U2F security key