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Comment Re:FIDO U2F keys? (Score 1) 92

by earlytime on Sunday October 01, 2017 @08:49PM (#55289915) Attached to: Google Plans Upgrade of Two-Factor Authentication For Politicians and CEOs

Something I've always wondered, what happens if you lose your Yubikey or its electronics stuffs up? How do you reestablish your identity?

Are we back to security questions like "what's your mother's maiden name?"

Godel,

Same as with your house key or car key. You just setup another U2F/yubikey key and use that to recover/access your account, then disable the lost/damaged/stolen key.

Submission + - NASA Launches Massive Digital Library for Space Video, Photos & Audio (space.com)

Submitted by earlytime on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @05:08PM

earlytime writes: "NASA on Tuesday (March 28) unveiled a new online library that assembles the agency's amazing space photos, videos and audio files into a single searchable library.

The NASA Image and Video Library, as the agency calls it, can be found at http://images.nasa.gov/ and consolidates space imagery from 60 different colletions into one location."

Submission + - US Congress Votes To Shred ISP Privacy Rules (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @03:17PM

An anonymous reader writes: The US House of Representatives has just approved a "congressional disapproval" vote of privacy rules, which gives your ISP the right to sell your internet history to the highest bidder. The measure passed by 232 votes to 184 along party lines, with one Democrat voting in favor and 14 not voting. This follows the same vote in the Senate last week. Just prior to the vote, a White House spokesman said the president supported the bill, meaning that the decision will soon become law. This approval means that whoever you pay to provide you with internet access – Comcast, AT&T, Time Warner Cable, etc – will be able to sell everything they know about your use of the internet to third parties without requiring your approval and without even informing you. That information can be used to build a very detailed picture of who you are: what your political and sexual leanings are; whether you have kids; when you are at home; whether you have any medical conditions; and so on – a thousand different data points that, if they have sufficient value to companies willing to pay for them, will soon be traded without your knowledge. With over 100 million households online in the United States, that means Congress has just given Big Cable an annual payday of between $35bn and $70bn.

Submission + - Bay Area tech executives indicted for H-1B visa fraud (mercurynews.com)

Submitted by s.petry on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @01:56PM

s.petry writes: FREMONT – Two Bay Area tech executives are accused of filing false visa documents through a staffing agency in a scheme to illegally bring a pool of foreign tech workers into the United States.

An indictment from a federal grand jury unsealed on Friday accuses Jayavel Murugan, Dynasoft Synergy’s chief executive officer, and a 40-year-old Santa Clara man, Syed Nawaz, of fraudulently submitting H-1B applications in an effort to illegally obtain visas, according to Brian Stretch, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California.

The men are charged with 26 counts of visa fraud, conspiracy to commit visa fraud, use of false documents, mail fraud and aggravated identity theft, according to prosecutors. Each charge can carry penalties of between two and 20 years in prison.

While not the only problem with the H-1B Visa program, this is a start at investigating and hopefully correcting problems.

Submission + - U2F Security Keys bridge the gap between SSL certificates and end-user education (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by earlytime on Friday December 23, 2016 @07:22PM

earlytime writes: Large scale account hacks such as the billion user Yahoo breach, and targeted phishing hacks of gmail accounts during the US election have made 2016 an infamous year for web security. Along comes U2F / web security keys to address these issues at a critical time.

Submission + - VMware 5.0 Released (marketwatch.com)

Submitted by earlytime on Thursday August 25, 2011 @08:40AM

earlytime writes: VMware releases vSphere 5 today. After much publicity about it's new licensing scheme, techies worldwide get to take the new release for a spin an see if all of the new features are worth the fuss. From TFA : "With the release of VMware vSphere 5, VMware is helping customers accelerate their journey toward a more efficient and automated cloud infrastructure," said Bogomil Balkansky, senior vice president, cloud infrastructure products, VMware. "The enhancements and new innovations we've introduced in VMware vSphere 5 provide a robust, reliable platform for business applications, enabling customers to effectively respond to the growing needs of their business and giving them confidence in their IT transformation."

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