[caption id="attachment_2904" align="alignleft" width="250" caption="password amnesity"][/caption] Cryptocard is offering UK businesses the chance to test the company's remote access login service free-of-charge until the end of the year. Cryptocard is a authentication company which is trying to get consumer ...

Ajax is a method by which developers bring end users closer to interfaces being exposed by Service Oriented Architectures. The push to create loosely coupled service-based architectures is a promising idea with many benefits in enterprise environments. As more of these service-based "endpoints" become developed, and as Ajax introduces ...

Software development is a process in which each and every aspect is a concern. When it comes to security it becomes the priority of software management team because a single flaw can ruin the development process. Following are some concerning areas where loophole may occurs. 1- Validating Input  There must be a ...

Basic authentication and digest authentication both suffer from the same major flaw. They use text files to store the authentication information. The problem with this is that looking something up in a text file is very slow. It's ...

Authentication is any process by which you verify that someone is who they claim they are. This usually involves a username and a password, but can include any other method of demonstrating identity, such as a smart card, ...

Sender ID authenticates inbound e-mail to help verify that it is from the person that it says it is from. Messages that have been authenticated by Sender ID are less likely to be spam and messages that fail Sender ID are more likely to be spam. To help distinguish between verifiable ...

s stated above, ASP.NET and IIS securities go hand in hand. Therefore ASP.NET authentication also relies on the settings that we make in IIS. ASP.NET offers following types of authentications: Authentication: the process of validating the identity of a user to allow or deny a request [4,9,10]. This involves accepting credentials ...

This is a sometimes heard expression of concern about the potential misuse of biometric data stored on central databases. It refers to the threat to privacy that such centralised collections of personal data could pose if compromised. Biometric data are regarded as personal data and hence subject to the controls appropriate to personal data. ...

Valuable assets are traditionally protected by secrecy, typically secret passwords. Biometric features are often readily observed and do not possess equivalent secrecy. They may also be captured with varying degrees of difficulty. This is a variation on the spoofing concern. It is certainly true that the source biometric features are not secret, but the ...

The question of the repudiation of biometrically authenticated transactions has been the subject of widespread discussion. Such discussion is not limited to biometric authentication though; other more traditional forms are also open to debate. Generally, signatures have been accepted as legally binding indicators but they are certainly open to challenge in the courts and ...

Template integrity and confidentiality are distinctly different issues related to template data though similar solutions may be employed to deal with both problems. Template integrity is concerned with threats to the authentication process caused by planted or modified templates, whereas template confidentiality relates to the legal and privacy issues around the template data and ...

Having summarized the many and sometimes conflicting requirements that an access management system must address, we now consider a number of actual schemes currently in use or under consideration and analyze how well they meet these requirements. It's important to recognize that in solving real-world problems more ...