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Authlogics Offers LinkedIn Corporation its PINgrid Solution Free of Charge to Protect Its Millions of Users from Future Password Attacks
May 2016 by Marc Jacob
Authlogics, a specialist in multi-factor authentication, is making an unprecedented gesture to LinkedIn Corporation, by offering its award-winning PINgrid solution free-of-charge, in order to safeguard its 100 million members from future password attack. The offer comes in the wake of an announcement this week that LinkedIn is still feeling the effects of a data breach which compromised member log-in details back in 2012.
A big challenge in securing social networks is an always logged-in culture, as members favour the convenience of not having to remember their password. One side effect of this is that members rarely change their passwords, making them vulnerable if an attack does happen. A further consequence is due to password replication when an organisation such as LinkedIn is compromised it can have much wider ramifications for other social networks.
PINgrid is an authentication technology that makes remembering a password a thing of the past. Imagine a password that changes every time you use it, but you always know what it is. It takes advantage of the mind’s hard-wired ability to remember patterns and shapes. It uses this handy human trait to provide a very robust, but brilliantly simple-to-use, logon system. PINgrid produces a one-time code (OTC) to prove who you are and all you have to remember is a simple pattern, no PINs or passwords. PINgrid keeps your pattern a secret by never revealing it when you log on. Each time you log in you enter a new code however your pattern remains the same and is secret to you.
