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iovation authentication
Passwordless security for consumer-facing websites

At RSA Conference 2016, iovation launched its new Customer Authentication service that allows consumer-facing websites to enhance security while streamlining and improving the …

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Is zero-effort computer security a dream?

Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Aalto University have found vulnerabilities in a recently proposed user-verification security system for …

Ping Identity
Ping Identity enhances its Federated Access Management technology

Ping Identity updated its Federated Access Management technology. Designed to displace legacy Identity and Access Management infrastructures, this latest release includes …

MasterCard identity check
Mastercard’s Selfie ID: Playing Russian Roulette with consumer identities?

At this week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, MasterCard announced it will accept selfie photographs and fingerprints as an alternative to passwords when verifying …

Volvo
Volvo to launch a car without a physical key

Can you imagine accessing and driving your car without a physical key? In a first for the automotive industry, Volvo is set to become the first car manufacturer to offer cars …

W3C
W3C launches effort to replace passwords

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is launching a new standards effort in web authentication that aims to offer a more secure and flexible alternative to password-based …

password
Why we need a reality check on passwords

Given all the recent and historical news on data breaches of personal e-mail accounts, social media accounts and even phone account passwords, it is every wonder therefore …

LastPass
LostPass: A worryingly simple phishing attack aimed at LastPass users

Security researcher (and Praesido CTO) Sean Cassidy has demonstrated at ShmooCon how easy it can be for hackers to steal LastPass users’ email, password, and two-factor …

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Compromised credentials a leading concern for most security pros

90% of organizations are worried about compromised credentials, though 60% say they cannot catch these types of attacks today, according to a new survey by Rapid7. 62% of …

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Why the legal sector is risking confidential information

The lack of unique logins, manual logoffs and concurrent logins is putting confidential information in the legal sector at risk, new research has revealed. A report by IS …

Cisco network
Cisco kills hardcoded password bug in Wi-Fi access points

Along with fixes for a number of older vulnerabilities in Cisco IOS and IOS XE software, the Cisco IOS Software Common Industrial Protocol, and the OpenSSL package …

Android
Android banking Trojan defeats voice call-based 2FA

Bankosy is a banking Trojan that has been targeting Android users for a while now, but has only recently been updated with a new capability of note: the ability to deceive …

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