The companies also hope to enable better user access to secure services - such as bank accounts - which require strong proof of identity before membership can be established. The Sun-Netscape Alliance and Equifax Secure have unveiled plans to...
The idea is that you could, for instance, log in to silicon.com, click on an advert for HP, make a purchase and then go straight through to your bank to check your balance without the need to sign-on again.
A recent study put Passport membership at around 14 million, which may be due to new requirements that Passport authentication is needed to use some Windows XP features, Hotmail email, Microsoft's developer site and other Microsoft products.
Gates lauded the advances Groove has accomplished in collaboration for Microsoft Office and said that Ozzie's expertise in other areas, notably security, authentication and peer-to-peer computing, will be brought to bear in other Microsoft...
Microsoft has given us source code so we can replace the Microsoft log-on screen. RSA's SecurID token generates a different password for each attempt to log on to a service. The Vista update will let third-parties write credential providers to add...
Microsoft suggested that users adopt a workaround, such as configuring IE to disable Active Scripting or to prompt before running it, or setting internet and local intranet security zone settings to 'high', to prompt before running ActiveX...