The researcher who claims to have created code that can emulate and clone e-passports has given details of the purported hack.
The Australian Customs Service today said its inbound e-passport authentication system SmartGate would not be fooled by fake details, after a Dutch hacker claimed to have broken through similar systems in Europe.
Despite security and privacy concerns, all but three of the countries required by the US to issue passports with radio tags are now doing so, the Department of Homeland Security said on Thursday.
Online auctioneer eBay officially has notified customers that it will no longer allow them to log on through Microsoft's identity management service, Passport.
Some Microsoft Money users continued to vent their frustrations Thursday over a server glitch that has prevented them from accessing their online personal finance files for nearly four days.
After five years without a major update to Windows, Microsoft will find plenty of willing buyers for Longhorn next year. Or will it?
Microsoft has backed away from many of the more grandiose uses once envisioned for Passport, its online identification system.
Recommendations in an article published by analysis giant Gartner urging its customers to break all connections with Microsoft's Passport authentication system are "a little extreme", according to the software company.
Microsoft intends to lay out a plan to make its .Net Passport authentication service more Web services-friendly.
Microsoft this summer will lay out a plan to make its .Net Passport authentication service more Web services-friendly.
Sun Microsystems will release new software that takes advantage of the Liberty technology for simplifying the process of signing on to multiple Web sites.
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Microsoft has released a new preview version of its forthcoming OS, but as the final release date approaches, Windows XP has become a lightning rod for the company's many detractors.
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