The government has revealed plans for a national proof-of-identity scheme that privacy campaigners say has echoes of the ID card project that was scrapped less than six months ago. The identity ...

Are passwords passé? A couple of weeks ago, the “Seattle Post-Intelligencer” ran an Associated Press story that described various multi-factor authentication schemes, such as password-plus-biometric ...

The most common interaction with an authentication mechanism is when we type in our password to log on to a computer or website. We type in the password once, it is authenticated by the OS, then our ...

Schools should implement an open source authentication system to give parents and pupils secure access to online content, says a government organisation. Becta, the UK government's education IT ...

All the legislation and regulation in the world has done little, if nothing to staunch the flow of spam into e-mail boxes around the world. One solution to the problem involves some sort of sender ...

Nico Popp can see the day when proving who you are on the faceless Internet will be as easy as using a picture I.D. in the real world. Popp is the point man for a new authentication program launched ...

Google announced today that any phone running Android 7 or higher can now be used as a physical security key for two-factor authentication, giving you an even more secure way to log into Google apps ...