authentication

Android will replace passwords with trust scores by 2017

Daniel Kaufman announced that Google is planning to make password identifications outmoded by 2017 and replace them with trust scores.…

10 years ago

Fujitsu targets payment industry with PalmSecure Technology

Fujitsu has announced plans to launch its digital payment system PalmSecure Technology in Europe that is a security solution for…

10 years ago

Once again identity thieves use stolen SSNs in IRS attack

The IRS detected roughly unauthorized attempts using 464,000 unique SSNs, and 101,000 attempts allowed crooks in generating PINs. The U.S. Internal…

10 years ago

RSA Conference registration page asks Twitter credentials, that’s incredible!

It is hard to believe but the RSA Conference registration page is collecting Twitter credentials sending them back to an…

10 years ago

Which are the worst passwords of 2015?

SplashData has published its fifth annual report on most used passwords in 2015, including the list of the Worst passwords…

10 years ago

A research team has found two flaws in the OAuth 2.0 protocol

According to a group of researchers from the University of Trier two critical flaw affects the oAuth 2.0 authentication protocol.…

10 years ago

Press backspace 28 times to hack a Linux PC with Grub2

The researchers Hector Marco and Ismael Ripoll have found that the Grub2 authentication could be easily defeated by hitting backspace…

10 years ago

How to extract PIN from any selfie, is biometrics secure?

The German researcher Starbug, has demonstrated that it is possible to extract everyone’s smartphone PIN code from any selfie “image,”…

10 years ago

Mandrake, NSA identifies users based on how they type on their devices

According to a senior fellow for Lockheed IT, the National Security Agency has tested the use of smartphone-swipe recognition technology…

11 years ago

IRS breached, hackers access data of more 100,000 taxpayers

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) was breached by hackers that "used an online service provided by the agency" to access…

11 years ago

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