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Rhm2ktmi's List: Identity & Authentication
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And the buying spree continues. IBM said Thursday it is acquiring Crossideas, an Italian company that specializes in security and compliance software — and managing user identities across different applications and deployment models.
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Namecoin (sign: ℕ; code: NMC) is a cryptocurrency which also acts as an alternative, decentralized DNS, which would avoid domain name censorship by making a new top level domain outside of ICANN control, and in turn, make internet censorship much more difficult, as well as reduce outages
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Bitcoin - First and Biggest (but Maybe Not the Best)
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Litecoin - 84 Million Coins Faster Than Bitcoin
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Namecoin is an alternative distributed Domain Name System (DNS) on the basis of Bitcoin software. It expands the software to support transactions for registering, updating, and transferring domains to serve.
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Like Bitcoin, Namecoin is a peer-to-peer system, which, assuming an honest majority of participants, can not be controlled by a single state or a company. Changes to the namespace of the rightful owner of a domain with a public key signature are distributed to all peer-to-peer users. The inclusion in the block chain, as the everlasting logfile is used, verifies that the transactions are authentic. The block chain grows whenever new transactions are added by any of the participants. Through a fairly intense proof-of-work process, a matching result of a cryptographic hash function is found that may be verified by all other participants. Due to the computational effort, it is impractical for a counterfeit blockchain to be created.
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Namecoin is an open source decentralized key/value registration and transfer system based on Bitcoin technology (a decentralized cryptocurrency).
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- It allows you to:
- Securely register and transfer arbitrary names (keys), no possible censorship!
- Attach values (data) to the names (currently up to 520 bytes, will be extended)
- Trade and transact namecoins, the digital currency NMC
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Cognitec develops market-leading face recognition technologies and applications for industry customers and government agencies around the world. In various independent evaluation tests, our FaceVACS® software has proven to be the premier technology available on the market.
Cognitec’s portfolio includes products for facial database search, video screening, border control, ICAO compliant photo capturing and facial image quality assessment.
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To accomplish this the GSM Association launched a new initiative called the OneAPI Exchange at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The idea is to create an application programming interface (API) that any mobile app developer can use to authenticate new users against a carrier’s subscriber identity data. So far AT&T, Orange, Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica and Vodafone have all signed on to the program, and together they represent a healthy chunk of the world’s mobile subscribers.
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Obviously carriers are looking to make themselves relevant once again in the applications market and take a cut from any mobile transaction. This time they actually stand a chance of succeeding. Unlike previous API initiatives, the GSMA has actually figured out a way to make OneAPI near universal. Instead of tapping into separate APIs and crafting separate business agreements with every operator, developers just have to build to one API and strike one carrier deal, but the identity feature will work across all carriers’ networks.
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Startup Stormpath makes its debut today with an identity and access-control cloud-based service primarily intended for use by software development teams that are building web applications.
"You don't have to worry about storing passwords, or groups and roles for users," says Alex Salazar, CEO of Stormpath. The cloud service can be used in a variety of ways to provide a ready-made authentication layer and workflow process that developers can turn to for use in programming environments.
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“Consumers are demanding convenient access to more services from more endpoints than ever and organizations need to be able to seize the opportunities that social identity, mobile computing, cloud and other trends naturally create,” says Geoff Webb of NetIQ.
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NFC, which stands for Near Field Communication, is a type of communication that involves wirelessly transmitting data from one hardware device to another physical object, provided that the devices are in short range (within 10 centimeters) of one another.
In order for NFC to work, both devices — say, for example, your smartphone and a payment terminal at your local CVS — have to have NFC chips and antennas embedded in them.
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Two-factor authentication provides an additional effective step to thwart would-be attackers from taking over users' accounts, but it is currently not an option for Twitter users. On the back of recent attacks on the site, many have been calling for Twitter to implement it, but, according to Kirsch, even if Twitter does roll out the security measure, it won't prevent the attack from occurring.
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The reason for this is that the most recent attack on Twitter wasn't conducted on users' accounts; it was on Twitter's own infrastructure. By directly attacking the servers containing the password hashes of Twitter users, two-factor authentication would make little difference.
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Isis, you may recall, is the MNO-led, NFC-focused, mobile wallet initiative which was initially scheduled to launch last summer, but which finally began a soft launch in Austin, Texas and Salt Lake City, Utah, in October.
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Chief Sales Officer, Jim Stapleton, has been briefing the media on the activities of the Isisites/Isissians in Utah.
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Feb 05, 13
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Could you host your data in a personal cloud and make money off it, too? A San Francisco-based company called The Respect Network is building the foundation to do just that, by letting you permit businesses to access certain personal information.
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he Respect Network plans to start operating its platform in the first quarter of next year, said Drummond Reed, the company’s managing director
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We are awash in passwords, and as the number of Web services increases, things are only going to get worse. Trying to manage all these individual passwords is a major problem for enterprise security. Many end users cope by re-using their passwords, which exposes all sorts of security holes
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SSO isn't new: we have had various products for more than a decade. What is new is that several products now combine both cloud-based SaaS logins with local desktop Windows logins, and add improved two-factor authentication and smoother federated identity integration.
Also helping is a wider adoption of the open standard Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), which allows for automated sign-ons via exchanging XML information between websites.
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As Douglas Merill, Google's former chief information officer and the founder of ZestFinance—a startup that leverages "big data" to provide credit scoring information—told the New York Times last year: “We feel like all data is credit data, we just don’t know how to use it yet. This is the math we all learned at Google. A page was important for what was on it, but also for how good the grammar was, what the type font was, when it was created or edited. Everything.”
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To that effect, ZestFinance looks at 70,000 signals and feeds them into 10 separate underwriting models for assessing the risk.
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Some—like the Hong Kong-based Lenddo, which currently operates in the Philippines and Colombia—do so by scrutinizing the applicants' connections on Facebook and Twitter.
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Similarly, the U.S.-based LendUp, which hands out short-term loans with high interest rates while allowing its most trusted established clients to move to more attractive longer-term packages, looks at social media activity to ensure that factual data provided on the online application matches what can be inferred from Facebook and Twitter.
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