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Brain’s reaction to certain words could replace passwords
You might not need to remember those complicated e-mail and bank account passwords for much longer. According to a new study, the way your brain responds to certain words …
How to turn on two-factor authentication on over 100 popular online services
TeleSign launched Turn It On, a new campaign featuring a guide to two-factor authentication and providing step-by-step instructions for turning on 2FA for over a 100 popular …
Strengthening trust in a highly connected world
As consumers, we increasingly expect anytime-anywhere access and personalized service, whether online at home, on-the-go with mobile devices, or in a store or branch location. …
Product spotlight: Entrust IdentityGuard
All organizations require the means to authenticate the identities of users, machines or mobile devices for access to sensitive networks, services, applications or facilities. …
Yahoo develops cheap, effective biometric smartphone authentication
A group of Yahoo researchers have demonstrated that apart from fingerprints, other parts of the human body, such as ears, fists, palms and fingers, can also be successfully …
Chrome extension protects your Google account from phishers
Google developers have created Password Alert, an open source Chrome extension that aims to prevent users from entering their Google password in a phishing site or, …
Why you should steer users towards less predictable passwords
As users are instructed to create ever more complex passwords, and developers are starting to use encryption methods more difficult to crack than standard hashing functions, …
Protecting identities from the endpoint to the cloud
At RSA Conference 2015, RSA launched the RSA Via family of Smart Identity solutions, engineered to combine authentication, identity and access management, and identity …
Behavioral biometrics: The password you can’t forget
This year’s Mobile World Congress featured more biometrics technology than ever before, with the launch of Google’s Android Pay and Samsung Pay both unveiling …
Organizations have little control over privileged access
Even though nearly half of IT decision makers admit they have employees with access rights not necessary to their current role, more than one out of four companies indicated …
Windows 10 will let you log in with your face and fingerprint
Windows 10 will be out this summer, available in 111 languages and in 190 countries around the world. In an effort to boost their (legal) numbers in China, Microsoft will …
Many admit that passwords are their only IT security measure
New research from SecureAuth shows that despite much debate, the password isn’t dead yet as two in five IT decision makers (ITDMs) admit that passwords are their only IT …
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