Passboard: A Password You Can Wear

There is a hugely growing market for password management.  For many, the increasing amount of options for managing passwords has come as a welcome relief, as many people must rely on multiple variations of passwords for each online service. Keeping track of all of your passwords can be a huge task.  Now, a new mobile security startup is trying to simplify things even further.  PassBan keeps mobile devices secure by offering different authentication options.  You can even wear a wristband authenticator, making passwords a thing of the past, and allowing you to simply gesture when you want to access your device.   With the free Android app called Passboard, you can secure any of your individual apps on your smartphone.  The wristband is just one of the possible verification techniques from which the user can choose. Options include voice identification, facial recognition, location, or the aforementioned wristband. The wristband works to unlock your phone or tablet when the user either makes a gesture or simply has proximity to the device. You can choose which method you want to use, and it is registered and transmitted via Bluetooth to your handset.  The technology essentially works by intercepting the launch of any [...]

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Almost Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Security

  (but were afraid to ask!)

This document is meant to answer some of the questions which regularly

appear in the Usenet newsgroups "comp.security.misc" and "alt.security",

and is meant to provide some background to the subject for newcomers to

that newsgroup.

Google Declares War On the Password

 An anonymous reader writes

"Wired reports on an enquiry paper from Google employees concerning the long run of authentication on the online. 'Along with several within the trade, we feel passwords and easy bearer tokens like cookies are not any longer sufficient  to stay users safe,' the authors write. Their set up involves authenticating one time, to one device, then mistreatment that to unlock all of your other accounts. "We'd like your smartphone or smartcard-embedded finger ring to authorize a brand new pc via a faucet on the computer, even in things during which your phone can be without cellular property." Recognizing that this is not something they'll accomplish on their own, they've gone ahead and created a device-based authentication protocol that is 'independent of Google, requires no special software package to work — aside from an internet browser that supports the login normal — and which prevents websites from mistreatment this technology to trace users.