authentication
Review: True Key for iOS
I’ve been using 1Password for years – both their desktop and mobile products. Altough it works fine, I was curious to see what are the alternatives I can use on my …
Top 10 strategic technologies for government in 2016
After nearly a decade of “doing more with less,” government CIOs remain under pressure to further optimize IT and business costs while leading digital innovation …
Google’s new authentication option: a tap on the screen
Google knowns that usability is a pre-requisite for security, so they’ve come up (yet again) with a new option within the 2-step verification feature for Google …
Behavior is the new authentication: A look into the future
In the next few years organizations will face extreme IT security challenges. Hackers are targeting humans instead of machines. All the most costly cyber attacks (APTs, …
Milagro: A distributed cryptosystem for the cloud
A new open source project within the Apache Incubator aims to create an alternative to outdated and problematic monolithic trust hierarchies such as commercial certificate …
Do users’ perceptions of password security match reality?
Think your password is secure? You may need to think again. People’s perceptions of password strength may not always match reality, according to a recent study by CyLab, …
Let’s stop talking password flaws and instead discuss access management
A good bit of attention has been given to a new report that suggests that there are organizations that don’t change their administrative passwords at all, ever. While it may …
Living in a password free world in the modern enterprise
The era of password security in the modern enterprise is over. Passwords are dead. Let’s be honest. Passwords in the enterprise were never really that secure in the …
1 in 10 people have posed as someone else online
Our need for ease and convenience is putting our digital identities and security at risk. A new BehavioSec report finds that 37% of us have shared our personal security data …
Most users limit personal info on social media due to hacking fears
Only 10 percent of internet-using adults in America used at least one social networking site in 2005. More than a decade later that number has grown exponentially, with 84 …
7 million users affected by Minecraft community Lifeboat data breach
Minecraft community fansite “Lifeboat” has admitted that it suffered a data breach in January, after security researcher Troy Hunt added some of the stolen data to …
How the biometrics market is entering the evolving IoT ecosystem
By 2021, the biometrics market will reach $30 billion and shift its revenue focus, moving away from the governmental sector to emphasize opportunities in the consumer and …