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Attackers can steal smartphone users’ PINs by tapping into data collected by mobile sensors
Researchers have demonstrated that a malicious website or app could work out smartphone users’ PINs or passwords based just on the data collected by various motion …
Weak social network password security is more trouble than you think
53 percent of users haven’t changed their social network passwords in more than one year – with 20 percent having never changed their passwords at all, according to a …
LastPass extensions can be made to cough up passwords, deliver malware
LastPass Chrome and Firefox extensions contain flaws that could allow malicious websites to steal victims’ passwords or execute commands on their computer. The flaws …
Online banking customers remain extremely frustrated with passwords
A new survey by iovation and Aite Group, polled nearly 1,100 consumers across four generations who use online and/or mobile banking platforms to better understand their …
Lip movement: Authentication through biometrics you can change
Choosing a unique, complex and long enough password that will still be easy to remember is a big challenge for most users, and most of them would happily opt for biometric …
How a dynamic range of authentication can open doors for trusted customers
In this podcast recorded at RSA Conference 2017, Michael Thelander, Director of Product Marketing at iovation, talks about lessons learned from bringing authentication …
How to minimize the risk and impact of identity fraud
The number of identity fraud victims increased by sixteen percent (rising to 15.4 million U.S. consumers) in the last year, according to Javelin Strategy & Research. They …
The most common passwords of 2016
Despite having been predicted many times, the demise of the password as the preferred authentication method is still far off, as it’s difficult to beat its ease of use. …
Consumers regularly share passcodes, creating compromising situations
Consumers keep more and more sensitive personal and professional information on their mobile phones, but most people remain alarmingly casual about adequately protecting that …
12 tips for implementing secure business practices
Optiv Security shared a list of a dozen tips for implementing secure business practices during the 2016 holiday season. Security experts developed these recommendations to …
Corporate data left unprotected in the wild
A new survey conducted by YouGov has highlighted the risks to corporate data from poor encryption, and employee use of unauthorised and inadequately protected devices. The …
Dailymotion urges users to reset passwords in wake of possible breach
Breach notification service LeakedSource has added information about over 87 million Dailymotion users to its search index. The information includes 87+ million email …
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