- Dec 30, 2012
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Intel took the wraps off a new password security-on-a-chip system Tuesday designed to foil hackers who use fake emails to trick employees into revealing their user names and passwords.
It could even give future corporate IT managers the option of eliminating those long, ever-changing passwords and replacing them with short PIN numbers or simply with fingerprints plus other identifiers.Called Intel Authenticate, it will be added to the company's line of sixth-generation processors and tested by select businesses in the coming months before entering production, said Tom Garrison, an Intel vice president.
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It could even give future corporate IT managers the option of eliminating those long, ever-changing passwords and replacing them with short PIN numbers or simply with fingerprints plus other identifiers.Called Intel Authenticate, it will be added to the company's line of sixth-generation processors and tested by select businesses in the coming months before entering production, said Tom Garrison, an Intel vice president.
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