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The user’s private keys, which are stored locally in the secure secure enclave portion of the device’s memory, authenticate and authorize the user through Beyond’s cloud-based service. Password management headaches and credential theft have long been one of the biggest challenges for organizations, and password layering with multi-factor authentication (MFA) and other protections has become the norm. But as the recent SolarWinds attack, believed to be outside of Russia, has shown, attackers can bypass MFA to capture or set credentials within their targets. Jermoluk, CEO of Beyond Ident...

Startup Offers Free Version of its 'Passwordless' Technology Beyond Identity co-founders hope to move the needle in eliminating the need for passwords, but experts say killing passwords altogether won't be easy. A startup with the goal of eradicating passwords and led by Netscape founder Jim Clark and broadband network pioneer Tom Jermoluk today released a free version of its service that authenticates and authorizes users without the use of passwords. The free version of Beyond Identity's service includes support from the company during business hours and deployment to an unlimited number o...

SolarWinds Attack Underscores 'New Dimension' in Cyber-Espionage Tactics Meanwhile, Malwarebytes is the latest victim, Symantec discovers a fourth piece of malware used in the massive attack campaign, and FireEye Mandiant releases a free tool to help spot signs of the attack. The complex cyberattack campaign against major US government agencies and corporations including Microsoft and FireEye has driven home the reality of how attackers are setting their sights on targets' cloud-based services such as Microsoft 365 and Azure Active Directory to access user credentials — and ultimately the o...

More SolarWinds Attack Details Emerge A third piece of malware is uncovered, but there are still plenty of unknowns about the epic attacks purportedly out of Russia. As yet another piece of malware has been uncovered in the attack on SolarWinds network management system software, there still remain several missing elements needed to draw a complete picture of the massive cyberattacks against major US government agencies and corporations, including security vendor and incident response expert FireEye. SolarWinds and CrowdStrike this week detailed a third malware tool — dubbed Sunspot — tha...

  How does this new service fight cancer, then? While a revenue share with charitable causes is certainly a possibility, that's not the core of this new service's mission. Rather, Futuristicon aims to use the power of its customers' computers. Sharing is Caring BOINC — Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing — is an open-source project with a laudable goal: take a little bit of computing power from a lot of people and use it to make some important calculations. BOINC projects calculate solutions to complex problems for astrophysics, biology, mathematics, and pretty much ever...