Press releases
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Yubico Releases YubiKey NEO, NEO-N with Support for FIDO Alliance’s Universal Second Factor Protocol * Note – as of May 21, 2015, Yubico FIDO Ready™ products became official FIDO Certified™ products. Read more here. Being U2F FIDO Ready™, one single YubiKey NEO or NEO-n security key can be used with any number of online services, with no user information or encryption keys shared between service providers. FIDO U2F enables […] Read more -
Yubico and NXP Semiconductors to Unveil the First FIDO Ready™ U2F Authentication Device at RSA 2014 * Note – as of May 21, 2015, Yubico FIDO Ready™ products became official FIDO Certified™ products. Read more here. Yubico and NXP are both board members of the FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) Alliance (www.fidoalliance.org), an industry consortium revolutionizing online authentication with the first standards-based specifications. At RSA, Yubico and NXP will demonstrate the FIDO […] Read more -
Banco Ganadero Deploys SwissBytes Virtual Box with YubiKey to Secure Online Banking Services Founded in 1994, Banco Ganadero has become one of the largest banks in Bolivia and needed an easy-to-use and highly effective solution to secure their home banking portal ‘GanaNet’. Banco Ganadero looked to SwissBytes to address this need, while keeping the security of its customer’s accounts and data at utmost importance. SwissBytes and Yubico worked […] Read more -
Yubico Introduces Industry’s First FIDO Ready™ Universal 2nd Factor Device * Note – as of May 21, 2015, Yubico FIDO Ready™ products became official FIDO Certified™ products. Read more here. The YubiKey NEO with FIDO U2F enables secure single key log in from a mobile device or computer, to any number of services. To authenticate, a user inserts the YubiKey NEO into a computer’s USB […] Read more -
The YubiKey NEO, Enabling Secure Login Across the Internet, Demonstrated at TechCrunch Disrupt U2F is a new online security standards initiative focused on scaling high security smart card technology beyond government and enterprise to every Internet user. U2F specifications were initially developed by Google, with contribution from Yubico and NXP, and are today hosted by the FIDO Alliance authentication standards organization (www.fidoalliance.org). “In the near future users will […] Read more -
miiCard Boosts Security with YubiKey Authentication miiCard can prove an individual’s identity to the level of an offline photo ID check in minutes and purely online. miiCard uses multi-factor authentication tools to prove the connection between a user and this verified identity. With YubiKey, miiCard can authenticate users through a unique physical token that only an authorized user possesses and that […] Read more -
Yubico Presents the First Smart Card with User Presence to Combat Super-Spy Malware Last year, it was revealed that a new Trojan had been used by hackers to compromise smart cards to access sensitive information in military networks and aerospace technology firms. The hackers had adapted the Sykipot Trojan to lift card credentials from compromised systems. Using phishing emails, users were then tricked to then download a […] Read more -
Gluu Integrates YubiKey for Secure Hard Token USB and NFC Two-Factor Authentication Gluu’s open source cloud identity platform enables an organization to authenticate people, and to integrate with applications by supporting popular open authentication and authorization protocols, such as SAML, OAuth 2.0, and RADIUS. “With over 200 two factor authentication companies competing for buyer’s attention, we have sought to test some of the more popular solutions that the market has […] Read more -
Yubico Rounds Out PortalGuard’s Two-Factor Authentication Offering by Adding a USB Token to Prevent Unauthorized Access Strong two-factor authentication is vital for securing access to corporate networks and mission-critical applications with sensitive information. To provide another secure access option to their clients, PortalGuard chose Yubico’s YubiKey, a small driverless USB-token that simplifies the process of logging in with a One-Time Password (OTP). “Based on our analysis of complementary strong authentication solutions, we determined the best combination of security, usability and […] Read more -
Yubico Presents the YubiKey NEO Featuring NFC and Security Technology from NXP “To meet the growing market demand for high security PKI-based encryption and mobile access, we are pleased to launch the YubiKey NEO which uniquely combines the simplicity of our driverless One-Time Password and USB authentication technology with the superior security of PKI encryption, as well as wireless connectivity for mobile devices,” said Stina Ehrensvard, CEO […] Read more