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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 -
YubiKey’s Hollywood Cameo Trips up Bad Guys The YubiKey made it into Hollywood’s spotlight last weekend, taking on a plot-turning cameo appearance in the movie Blackhat. (Cue the suspenseful music). When it was all said and done, the YubiKey showed some of the power of two-factor authentication – not in terms of fingering (pun intended) the suspect, but narrowing the field of potential […] Read more about Yubico -
FIDO U2F Ecosystem Coming Alive Update: New entries added to Enterprise Software list; new section, Governments, added; April 13, 2016 FIDO U2F (Universal 2nd Factor) is, as the name implies, a universal protocol that supports a wide range of modalities and use cases. Many people forget this fact given the current popularity of the USB form factor. But evidence is mounting including biometric, software, […] Read more FIDO Alliance U2F Works with YubiKey -
Yubico at CES ShowStoppers Today, Yubico is demonstrating how to protect Google and WordPress accounts with YubiKey and U2F open standard at the ShowStoppers event (booth A-13) at CES 2015 (Consumer Electronics Show). With the mission to make secure login easy and available for everyone, Yubico serves as a FIDO Alliance board member and is co-author and key driver […] Read more about Yubico Google -
U2F, WordPress and Security for the People Only a few weeks after Google announced U2F support and the protocol’s technical specifications were published, a U2F plugin for WordPress popped up and proved that U2F is the simple and open authentication protocol we envisioned it to be. High-security, public key hardware is no longer limited to a few enterprises and government services, but available […] Read more U2F -
Authentication: More Maturity, Choices in 2015 The 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 […] Read more about Yubico -
FIDO Aims at Standardized Strong Authentication In 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 […] Read more FIDO FIDO U2F security key strong authentication -
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 […] Read more about Yubico -
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Invests in Yubico, Ram Shriram Joins Board We 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 […] Read more about Yubico -
NEO Supports U2F +OTP; Same Key at Same Time Today, 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 […] Read more YubiKey NEO