• 5 Common Ways Hackers Steal Online Credentials – Yubico This month, Yubico is partnering with the National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCSA) to support and promote Data Privacy Day, an initiative to empower individuals and encourage businesses to respect privacy, safeguard data, and enable trust. While Data Privacy Day is a one-day event taking place on January 28, security is our focus at Yubico every day, […] Read more
• 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
• Flexible Modern Authentication with the Multi-Protocol YubiKey Most organizations work with multiple services and applications, and thus different authentication protocols, to meet all their security needs. Oftentimes, the protocol is predetermined by the application or service provider. However, in other cases, a business or systems integrator has some flexibility on which integration approach or third party to use. When it comes to […] Read more
• Find us this week at the Gartner and AFCEA events in Maryland! We have a busy week ahead! Come watch us show off our award-winning YubiKeys at two Maryland events: Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit (National Harbor) on June 12 to 15 and AFCEA’s Defensive Cyber Operations Symposium (Baltimore Convention Center) on June 13 to 15. New U2F integration with Keeper Security We are excited to […] Read more
• 3 Top Things to Consider When Implementing FIDO U2F With Your Service Now more than ever, security must be built into everything. By leveraging open standards, instead of building security protocols from the ground up, organizations can provide strong authentication faster than ever before. We created the Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) protocol together with Google several years ago and offered it the world for free along with […] Read more
• Over A Dozen Services Supporting FIDO U2F Updated Oct. 10, 2016 to include U2F support added to Opera browser, Salesforce Creating standards is hard work that only sweetens when the market starts to arrive and validate the effort with real world deployments. On June 22, Bitbucket, GitLab, and Sentry all released support for FIDO U2F strong authentication in their cloud-based products. None of […] Read more
• YubiKey, U2F Tracking Bluetooth Maturity At Yubico, we have been experimenting and innovating for a long time with additional YubiKey interface options, like Bluetooth Classic and Bluetooth Smart. Once the Bluetooth work stream was formed within FIDO U2F, we were active in completing the specification. We have passed the FIDO U2F BLE interoperability tests, and are happy to report that this […] Read more
• U2F, OpenID Connect Align For Mobile Authentication A year ago, Yubico described a cord-cutting mobile world where hard-wired ports were not needed to accommodate the security benefits of strong authentication. Since then, growth in the mobile device market has continued its explosion, including 1.4 billion smartphones shipped worldwide in 2015, according to IDC. Couple this development with standards work by the FIDO […] Read more
• GitHub Verify Feature Strengthens YubiKey Value Often times, it’s the little things in life that bring the most satisfaction. For GitHub users, a shiny new “little thing” is available today. New “Verified” checkmarks in the Web interface document that commits are signed with GPG keys, which ensures the integrity of the code. No more downloading code from GitHub to verify commit […] Read more
• UK Becomes the First Government to Offer Secure Online Identities Based on FIDO U2F Standards STOCKHOLM & AMSTERDAM, March 23, 2016 – Yubico, the leading provider of simple, open and strong authentication, and Digidentity, a leading identity service provider, today announced a partnership to enable FIDO Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) authentication and YubiKeys for UK government services. The joint solution allows all UK citizens to easily and securely access GOV.UK […] Read more