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Access control and authentication

Article | 13/05/2011 Facebook tightens log-in verification
To help its hundreds of millions of users prevent unauthorized access to their accounts, Facebook has added an optional verification step to its log-i...
Article | 16/04/2011 White House releases trusted Internet ID plan
The U.S. government will coordinate private-sector efforts to create trusted identification systems for the Internet, with the goal of giving consumer...
Article | 29/03/2011 Security manager's journal: Helping in-house developers
This week I found out that my company is developing software in-house. Until now I hadn't known that we were a software development shop, but I guess ...
Article | 25/03/2011 European Commission hit by serious cyberattack
The European Commission, including the body's diplomatic arm, has been hit by what officials said Thursday was a serious cyberattack.
Article | 19/03/2011 After RSA breach, are SecurID tokens in jeopardy?
The intrusion by hackers of security giant RSA, a unit of EMC, has left customers and analysts wondering if it is still safe to use millions of the on...
Article | 17/03/2011 Twitter adds option to always use HTTPS connection
With the rising awareness and concern over the stealing of passwords and other sensitive data from unsecured Wi-Fi networks, Twitter is the latest onl...
Article | 9/03/2011 Malvertising continues to pound legitimate websites
In the last three months of 2010 attackers managed to serve 3 million malicious advertising, or malvertising, impressions every day. That's the headli...
Article | 7/03/2011 Hackers targeted French gov't computers for G20 secrets
IT staff spent the weekend in a massive clean-up operation to remove traces of a "spectacular" attack on computers at Bercy, the headquarters of the F...
Article | 5/03/2011 Germany identifies a secure way to deal with spam
In theory, stopping spam is easy: just make it uneconomic to send millions of messages by charging for each one sent, or make senders authenticate the...
Article | 2/03/2011 Extreme takes aim at secure mobile networking
Extreme Networks is going mobile. The company today wheeled out a roadmap that will steer the company's product line toward mobile device and applicat...
Article | 11/02/2011 Google boosts log-in protection for its users
Google will offer its hundreds of millions of users the option of adding a second verification step when signing into their accounts, to complement th...
Article | 3/02/2011 ShmooCon: Eavesdropping easy on Evite
Web service Evite offers more than a convenient way to send out e-mail invitations to events. For those with even a modest amount of malicious gumptio...
Article | 11/01/2011 IBM DeveloperWorks site defaced
An IBM site for developers was defaced over the weekend, with attackers replacing some of the Web pages on the site with ones containing their own mes...
Article | 7/01/2011 Hacked iTunes accounts continue to sell in China
The sale of iTunes accounts that have reportedly been hacked has yet to be stopped by Apple or the Chinese e-commerce site hosting the sellers.
Article | 22/12/2010 Cloud Security Alliance updates controls matrix
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has launched a revision of the Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM). The new matrix (version 1.1), available for free downloa...