Press releases
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Yubico Launches YubiKey Edge at RSA 2015; OTP and U2F Two-Factor Authentication in One Key Highly requested by Yubico partners and customers, YubiKey Edge combines multiple authentication options. YubiKey Edge incorporates OTP authentication which is the foundation of YubiKeys, including Yubico OTP, OATH, and Challenge-Response. Added support for the FIDO Alliance’s Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) protocol, provides easy-to-use public key cryptography. “Two-factor authentication has become a must-have defense for protecting users, […] Read more -
Yubico Launches the World’s Smallest Hardware Security Module Yubico’s new YubiHSM enables an easy, affordable way of protecting encryption secrets and passwords stored on an authentication server. The product protects sensitive data against remotely conducted intrusion attacks and internal threats, such as employees attempting to copy secrets. The module is configured by default to support the Yubico One-Time Password validation, but can be configured […] Read more -
Yubico at CES ShowStoppers – Demonstrating the New Open Standard FIDO U2F for Secure Login to Google and WordPress Yubico will be exhibiting at booth A-13 at ShowStoppers on Tuesday January 6, 2015, at the Wynn Las Vegas. 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 of the FIDO U2F (Universal 2nd Factor) protocol. The […] Read more -
FIDO Alliance Publishes Final FIDO 1.0 Specifications, First Industry Standards for Universal Strong Authentication Yubico serves as a board member and is co-author and key driver of the FIDO U2F (Universal 2nd Factor) protocol. Earlier this quarter, Yubico introduced the FIDO U2F Security Key, a new and easy to use two-factor authentication device, which supports FIDO U2F functionality added to Google Accounts and the Chrome browser. This was […] Read more -
Yubico Releases FIDO U2F Security Key Earlier today, Google announced on its blog an extra layer of security for Google Accounts based on FIDO U2F support added to the Chrome browser, the first public deployment of FIDO U2F protocols and a major step in increasing Internet security. Starting today, the Security Key by Yubico with its FIDO U2F support lets users […] Read more -
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