Companies want to be your identity service providers and see the Social Security Administration as a test case for making verification more consistent and interoperable.

The Obama administration and a bevy of non-profits and technology and financial services companies joined forces Wednesday in a publicity campaign to get Americans to stop relying…

Don't panic. That's the message from the U.S. government's former czar for secure online identity about the feds' recent move toward phasing out SMS-based one-time passwords as…

​Consumer-facing web services providers like email. social media or cloud storage companies are wrestling with the impact of huge troves of hacked passwords available on the dark…

More than half of small businesses have suffered a cyberattack or data breach in the last 12 months, and one-third don't know how it happened, according to…

The plans of the General Services Administration’s digital tiger team, 18F, to build a single online sign-in interface through which Americans can log on to digital government…

The program within the National Institute of Standards and Technology aiming to make passwords obsolete has released a draft document that proposes a “major transformation” in digital…

“Passw0rd” is not a secure password, but it is the 24th most popular one in the world, according to SplashData's fifth annual analysis of stolen user-data dumped…

The National Institute of Standards and Technology might change a key portion of a reference guide related to electronic authentication due to passwords becoming more and more…

The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, which is overseen by NIST, announced it is seeking pilot projects for its fourth year of funding.