The authors evaluate two decades of proposals to replace text passwords for general-purpose user authentication on the web using a broad set of twenty-five usability, deploy ability and security ...

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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 ...

Despite the astronomical growth of smartphones and tablets, and the rise in applications allowing consumers to purchase both virtual and real goods from their mobile devices, mobile commerce still ...

That’s where two-factor authentication services come into play. Years ago, vendors came out with hardware-based two-factor authentication: combining a password with a token that generates a one-time ...

Perhaps one of the most fascinating aspects of any developing tech scandal is the way that the target company handles criticism and feedback from the community. After announcing a new authentication ...