Archive for the 'security' Category


WoW to offer online banking?

“Internet security is broken, and nobody seems to know quite how to fix it.”  says the NYTimes.  I beg to differ.  I believe it is very clear what we need to do to combat online fraud.  And the crazy thing is, an online gaming company is doing a better job of it than almost everyone [...]

Strong authentication demo videos

We re-filmed the strong authentication demo videos, this time with audio. Check out our videos of Vidoop Secure in action: voice phone call, SMS message, or Vidoop ImageShield. Eric also updated his collection to point to the new videos.

Strong authentication on and off the web

In addition to the reasons I talked about in my previous post, there are other reasons that IIW2008b was a great conference for Vidoop. One of the major reasons is that exceptional progress has been made toward enabling web-based strong authentication to work in more places in the enterprise.

Eric Sachs, Google’s Security Product Manager, is [...]

Intelligent web - protected?

On the official Google blog the other day, two expert googlers talk about the future of the intelligent web.  They speculate that the future will be more and more cloud based, with access from all types of devices, served by ever more powerful hardware.  I wonder if these experts envision all this new data in [...]

Digital ID World (DIDW) Panel Confirmed

Scott Kveton, Mitchell Savage and others are heading down to LA for Digital ID World 2008.
There will be an awesome panel on Wednesday, September 10th at 3pm about ‘How The Social Web Will Change Enterprise Identity Management.’ This session will be an interactive panel with experts from the emerging field of the Social Web who [...]

Bridging Identity in the Browser with OpenID & Information Cards

Several of us here at Vidoop spend a lot of our time thinking about ways to help build an open standards based, interoperable, secure and usable identity layer for the web.  We work with a lot of great folks, each with their own set of goals and motives.  Interestingly, in the last few weeks there [...]

Where is Vidoop at?

Vidoop is worldwide securing your inter-tubes…
Though in a more physical sense the majority of the Vidoop team is gearing up for the ‘Oregon Trail’ trip and move to Portland. More (videos, pictures, tweets) will be posted on a dedicated site that will be up as the convoy progresses towards the Rose City. Stay tuned…
We [...]

New myVidoop release includes form-filling plugin and more…

We’ve released a new version of myVidoop packed with new features. After getting lots of great feedback we are very pleased to be releasing updated versions of Vidoop.com and our identity provider myVidoop, including updates for our Firefox myVidoop plugin that does automatic form-filling for you!
That’s right, the (Firefox) plugin will now fill out [...]

User Experience on the Open Web

One of the most important aspects of any website is the user experience. On the web, the simpler the better. Simplicity always seems to win over features or anything else (examples: Google, Craigslist, Myspace, Facebook). As the Internet embraces openness and moves in the direction of allowing you to move your data [...]

myVidoop passes the ‘fun’ security test

Fun Communications made a neat little site http://idtheft.fun.de/ that lets you mount a man-in-the-middle based phishing attack against your OpenID provider of choice. It is useful for testing and we would suggest people check out their own provider, the results may be interesting. Mike Jones used the site to check out a couple providers [...]