The USB 3.0 Promoter Group has announced the USB Type-C Authentication specification, defining cryptographic-based authentication for USB Type-C chargers and devices. USB-C is the port (the only one) ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. As much as our digital ecosystem has advanced in recent years, some elements of the security ...

You probably know that enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA) is one of the best ways to protect your online accounts. A hardware security key, such as the $55 Yubico YubiKey 5C NFC, can serve as ...

A VPN ( or Virtual Private Network) is a way of creating a secure connection ‘to’ and ‘from’ a network or a computer. The VPN uses strong encryption and restricted, private data access which keeps the ...

The pandemic has pushed the Department of Veterans Affairs to think beyond multifactor authentication to keep bad actors out of VA systems as it anticipates extended work-from-home policies. One of ...

While Windows IT professionals deal with security on a daily basis, very few understand the under-the-hood protocol, Kerberos. Kerberos is a security protocol in Windows introduced in Windows 2000 to ...

Subpar USB Type-C cables could fry your devices -- just ask that Google engineer who tested a few and ended up losing a Chromebook Pixel 2 to a particularly bad one. In an effort to protect users, the ...

Security researchers say the Diameter protocol used with today's 4G (LTE) telephony and data transfer standard is vulnerable to the same types of vulnerabilities as the older SS7 standard used with ...

SHENZHEN, China & BEAVERTON, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The USB 3.0 Promoter Group today announced the USB Type-C™ Authentication specification, defining cryptographic-based authentication for USB Type-C™ ...