Digital Identity
31 Stories
Personal security gets DIVA treatment
News Singapore government develops a security software tool to help users manage their digital identity via various devices, including flash-based storage cards.
Novell to chop 600 jobs, shed division
News Layoffs are part of major restructuring at the server software maker. The sale of a division could cut at least 400 additional jobs.
Tags: Linux, Open source, Layoffs
Sun to offer utility pricing for desktops
News Thin-client Sun Ray product hasn't taken off yet, but Sun hopes subscription pricing will boost its popularity.
Tags: Software licensing, Best strategies
Microsoft proposes age-limited digital playgrounds
News Company envisions offline identity authenticators creating digital credentials that could prove you are who you say you are on the Internet as part of its Trustworthy Computing initiative.
Tags: Privacy, Security, Microsoft Corp., Children, Identity, Open Source, Scott Charney, Digital Identity, RSA Security Inc., Environment
OpenID comes to Facebook, at last
News The universal log-in standard hadn't come to Facebook sooner because of security and user experience concerns, a post on the social network's blog explains.
Tags: Web 2.0, Open source, Security, Digital Identity, Facebook Connect, Facebook, network, workplace, blog, Google Gmail
IBM highlights new threats
News IBM highlighted that virtualization, cloud computing and SaaS (software-as-a-service) are new vectors for security attacks, together helping to drive the security market in Thailand to around US$28 million this year.
Tags: Hacking, Virtualization, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), IBM Corp., Security, Thailand, Insider Threat, Digital Identity, Harley-Davidson Inc., financial accounting
RFID software to boom
News New report says software required to process data in radio frequency identification chips will grow from US$36 million in 2006 to US$192 million in 2010.
Tags: Components, RFID, Business applications
HP aims to help governments check IDs
News The technology taps into Microsoft .Net to authenticate ID cardholders and people who want to use e-government services.
Tags: Biometrics, Security Management
Speednames nets US$8m in funding 
News Denmark-based domain names registrar Speednames has received US$8 million in its second round of funding from three Danish venture capital firms (VCs) and a group of private German and Swiss investors.
Cyber checks for Olympic visitors
News Travelers making their way to Beijing this August for the Olympic Games should keep an eye out for cybercriminals looking to exploit poor Internet user habits, warns security firm.
Tags: PC security, Data security, Firewalls, Hacking, IDS (Intrusion Detection Systems), Security applications/tools, Security Management, Security, Mobile, Trend Micro Inc.
Open-source firms team up for interoperability
News Open Solutions Alliance hopes to make open-source software programs work better together.
Tags: Linux, Customer resource management (CRM), Open source
The red herring of data protection
Insight The numbers have been staggering: 145,000; 13.9 million; 40 million.
Getronics moves into smart card market
News Getronics Solutions (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd is riding with Gemplus to expand its systems integration expertise into the rapidly growing smart card-enabled markets in the country.
Open source identity projects connect with Microsoft
News The Higgins and Bandit projects claim a milestone with technology that links their open-source identity technology with Microsoft's new Windows CardSpace system.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Security Management, Open source
Liberty Alliance expands membership
News The project, which seeks to establish a standard method for online identifications, gains five new members, boosting Sun's effort to outgun Microsoft's Passport system.
