authentication

As data dumps of cards stolen in the Target breach continue to be sold on underground cybercrime forums, and the stolen information is being used to perform unauthorised …

Consumers increasingly share their personal data, including payment information, with a growing number of e-retailers. The keys that protect their personal data are the …

The revelation that usernames and phone numbers of some 4.6 million Snapchat users have been compromised marked a very bad start of the year for the company behind the popular …

Different tokens, devices, mobile phones, e-signatures, etc. are used to authenticate our e-identities. Yet, some financial institutions are still not considering the risk of …

A security researcher has discovered that Starbuck’s iOS mobile application stores users’ usernames, email address and passwords in clear text, and has tried to …

CA Technologies announced its predictions in identity and access management (IAM) and their impact on security professionals in 2014. “We believe that the technology …

After a few days of speculations fuelled by a not clear enough explanation, the OpenSSL Foundation has confirmed that the late December defacement of its Openssl.org website …

BYOD continues its victory march as the enabler of choice among employees juggling increasingly intertwined home and work lives – for IT managers however it is the stuff …

As 2013 comes to a close, it’s time to reflect on a year of change for password security and the implications for the year ahead. Large scale security breaches this year …

Several password replacement schemes have been suggested that use a visual code to log in. However the visual code can often be relayed, which opens up a major vulnerability. …

Using a Raspberry Pi nanocomputer and the multiOTP open source library, André Liechti showcases how to how to create an OATH-compliant authentication server at PasswordsCon …

A group of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science believe they might have solved the problem of choosing and, above all, remembering …