authentication

The holiday shopping season is now fully underway, but the online shopping splurge is not over yet. Over half of Europeans plan to buy their gifts online, yet many are …

Knowledge-based authentication (KBA) is a methodology gaining increasing recognition for providing the identity proofing part of user authentication. A group of senior IT pros …

Tired of solving CAPTCHAs? Google has just the thing for you. The company has introduced the latest iteration of its reCAPTCHA tool, and it most cases, it will allow users to …

Intel acquired PasswordBox, a provider of a cross-platform identity management service that gives users a way to log into all of their websites and applications from any …

Account takeover fraud is the primary means of attack from fraudsters and attack origins occurring predominantly outside of the U.S., according to NuData Security. Account …

A good indication that the use of password managers has become a thing is the fact that cyber crooks are now trying to slurp up users’ master password for a number of …

Once again, ATMs have been “hacked” by individuals taking advantage of default, factory-set passcodes. This time the passcode hasn’t been guessed, or ended …

Google is offering an alternative second factor for its two-step account verification option, one that has the additional advantage of thwarting phishing attacks. It’s …

In the spirit of November as National Cyber Security Awareness Month, Facebook security engineer Chris Long shared how the company discovers that some of its users’ …

Poor password habits are putting employers at risk and losing them hundreds of thousands of pounds in lost productivity, according to new research from Centrify. According to …

This infographic by Wave Systems addresses current authentication problems and illustrates how to ensure that only known users access corporate resources, devices and …

93 percent of respondents believe that identity theft is a growing problem yet are not doing enough to address the issue, according to a survey conducted by Edelman Berland. …