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Authentication Defined
Any process that ensures that users are who they say they are. Usually, you are prompted to type your name or user id, and password, to authenticate you and allowed access to a Web page or site. PAP and POP are two examples of authentication protocols.
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Facebook botnet risk revealed
Published September 6, 2008, 2:04 pm, CNET
Researchers created a demo "Photo of the Day" app that turned Facebook users' machines into a botnet. Social networks, they warn, are ideal for attack platforms.
Email and web snoop plans slammed - again
Published September 4, 2008, 9:03 am, Silicon.com
How can you use all that data, asks Labour tech tzar
Will Vista Have Its Day?
Published September 4, 2008, 1:41 am, PC World
Readers debate whether Windows Vista will succeed in winning over users, trade Web tricks, and slam Comcast's broadband caps.
Small business database security needs minding
Published September 3, 2008, 11:03 pm, Cape Cod Times
Locks, alarms and cameras can help safeguard your facilities and equipment.
Growing Sales Pipeline Prompts IdentiPHI to Expand Executive Team
Published September 3, 2008, 6:00 am, Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
AUSTIN, Texas----IdentiPHI, Inc. , an innovative leader in enterprise security solutions and services, today announced it is expanding its executive team with the addition of Carter Marantette as vice president of North America sales.
O2 hails success of Oyster-phone trial
Published September 3, 2008, 3:57 am, ZDNet UK
The mobile-wallet tech proved popular with users in a six-month trial but a rollout could be five years away, says the operator
Aladdin eToken and eSafe Win Network Products Guide Reader Trust Awards
Published September 3, 2008, 3:30 am, Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance
Aladdin Knowledge Systems, an information security leader specializing in authentication, software DRM and content security, today announced that Network Products Guide, a Silicon Valley Communications publication and a world leading publication on technologies and solutions, named Aladdin eToken NG-FLASH winner of the 2008 Best Products and Services Award for "Best in Tokens" and named Aladdin ...
Microsoft reveals Live Mesh for mobiles
Published September 2, 2008, 10:19 pm, iTNews
Microsoft has briefly peeled back the covers on mobile integration in its Live Mesh platform with a short demonstration at Tech Ed 2008.
Five-year wait for O2 Oyster card mobiles
Published September 2, 2008, 7:33 am, Silicon.com
NFC love needs to go 'mass market'
UK crime fighters grapple with iPhone wipe threat
Published September 2, 2008, 5:03 am, Silicon.com
PC-mobile shift causing headaches for forensics chief
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- The problem(s) with OpenID: A thorough list of criticisms. I never quite got OpenID - with reason as it turns out.
- Integrating LDAP and Kerberos: Part One (Kerberos) | Linux Magazine
- Debian GNU: Setting up MIT Kerberos 5
- Saving proxy user/password and never any other passwords? ? mozillaZine Forums
- A Linux-PAM page
- LDAP - Debian Wiki
- MicroID - Small Decentralized Verifiable Identity
- authenticateWi thGoogleClient Login: withPassword
- OpenID
- steffenbartsch ? Declarative Authorization
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