authentication

Two-factor authentication schemes have definitely been proven to be ineffectual as news of a massive global financial services fraud campaign that targeted well-moneyed …

An international team of scientists that goes by the name of “Team Prosecco” claims to have devised attacks that manage to extract the secret cryptographic key …

If you have logged into Facebook in the last few days, chances are you have been faced with a new Facebook message at the top of your page saying “Stay in control of …

Computer-assisted tools and crowd sourcing can easily bypass traditional anti-spam solutions, forcing CAPTCHAs to evolve to address these techniques, according to Imperva. A …

In this podcast, Mike Moir, Product manager with Entrust, talks about Entrust IdentityGuard, an award-winning software authentication platform that helps financial …

It seems that the long awaited Diablo 3 real-money auction house will finally become a reality, as Blizzard has changed its Terms of Use to make all players who want to access …

A simple but serious MySQL and MariaDB authentication bypass flaw has been revealed by MariaDB security coordinator Sergei Golubchik, and exploits targeting it have already …

Like everyone this week, I learned about a huge file of password hashes that had been leaked. The 120MB zip file contained 6,458,020 SHA-1 hashes of passwords for end-user …

After the news about the theft of millions of user passwords from the business-based networking site LinkedIn, dating site eHarmony and Last.fm, users should be extra vigilant …

In the last two years, over 200 million Indian nationals have had their fingerprints and photographs taken and irises scanned, and given a unique 12-digit number that should …

Nuance announced Dragon ID, a voice biometrics technology that lets people quickly and easily unlock mobile devices and consumer electronics just by using their voice. Dragon …

Visitors to 4chan have recently been automatically redirected to the Twitter account of hacker group UGNazi, and an investigation into the matter revealed that the attack has …