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Authentication: More Maturity, Choices in 2015The past 12 months have been stressful given breaches and privacy violations and countries blocking all or part of their citizens’ access to the Internet (which by the way turned 25 in May). As the calendar turns to 2015, there is unprecedented power and pitfalls harnessed in computing devices and digital life. All this connectivity puts […]
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FIDO Aims at Standardized Strong AuthenticationIn the early 1990s, a company called Softswitch found itself at a strategic crossroads in that it held the key to integrating disparate electronic messaging systems. So strategic, in fact, that Lotus Software paid $62 million to acquire the company and send a ripple of fear through its main email competitor Microsoft. In a story […]
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A Safer Internet for the Holidays!There is a belief that colors have a profound effect on humans. Perhaps this is true. Colored YubiKeys are often requested by our customers to help them organize their YubiKeys. In October, our blue Security Key received rave reviews. So we’ve decided that one of our holiday offers should come in living color: the Limited […]
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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Invests in Yubico, Ram Shriram Joins BoardWe are excited to announce that Ram Shriram, founding board member of Google, has joined Yubico’s board of directors. In addition, Marc Benioff, founder of Salesforce.com, and Ori Eisen, renowned fraud protection entrepreneur, have joined as Yubico investors. “I invest in people; great entrepreneurs and engineers solving real problems,” said Shriram. “Yubico has an opportunity to make […]
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NEO Supports U2F +OTP; Same Key at Same TimeToday, we whizz past another milestone. NEO keys built on our 3.3 firmware will support both U2F and OTP running on the same key at the same time. In fact, the configuration will support those two along with CCID. We heard loud and clear during our launch of U2F support in October that a multi-function […]
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Yubico CEO wins Gold Stevie Award for Female Executive of the YearWe are proud to announce that Stina Ehrensvard, CEO and Founder of Yubico has been named the Gold Stevie Award winner for Female Executive of the Year – Business Products. The Stevie Awards for Women in Business were announced Friday, November 14. The awards shine a spotlight on women executives, entrepreneurs, and organizations run by […]
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Yubico’s Take on U2F Key WrappingHow does Yubico’s implementation of U2F claim to be able to support any number of services with unique key pairs when we have limited storage? And do this in a way that is secure and respects your privacy? First off, a refresher on how this is described in the U2F specification: “U2F tokens might not […]
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Why FIDO U2F Was Designed to Protect Your PrivacyIf you are not a dictator, you probably love the Internet. During the Arab Spring protests, social media played an important role in helping people to connect and organize protests against non-democratic governments. Inevitably, this created a backlash against such sites, intimidating them to provide information about individuals. In a discussion with a security engineer at […]
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Google Unveils FIDO U2F Security Key SupportGoogle today announced on its security blog an extra layer of security for Google Accounts based on the emerging strong authentication standard; Universal 2nd Factor or U2F. This is a good day for the Internet. As a driving contributor to FIDO U2F specifications, Yubico celebrates this big day by releasing a new blue campaign version […]
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YubiKey NEO & FIDO U2F: One Key for All AppsI’ve been in this business for a long time and watched a lot of promise collapse and a fair number of snake oil salesmen flourish. Strong authentication is one of those technology conundrums that always seems to be partially solved. The drawbacks of traditional one-time passcodes are well understood and we’ve always truly known their […]
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