Software giant tightens up in-house security after hacker break-in. With notable exceptions such as the U.S. Defense Department, smart cards that contain encryption-based digital certificates for ...

On Monday, the Redmond, Wash., software giant announced a deal to acquire Ottawa-based Alacris, an ISV partner and maker of ID and smart-card management software, for an undisclosed amount and to ...

The Redmond, Wash., software giant announced last week it would acquire Ottawa-based Alacris, whose idNexus 3.0 for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 provides extended life-cycle management for digital ...

Microsoft Tuesday released the next beta of its Certificate Lifecycle Manager, a key piece of security infrastructure that supports deployments of two-factor authentication, such as smart cards.

Microsoft has confirmed that its recent July security update has broken printing and scanning on systems when using smart card authentication. The problem is related to certain changes it made.