If the only thing separating a cyber criminal, online stalker or identity thief from your personal data and information is a password or PIN you’ve already lost. There are three primary methods of authentication but “something you know” is the […]
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Here’s some good news for the selfie generation! MasterCard is initiating a pilot program to test the viability of facial recognition for approving transactions. This new app would allow people to verify their transactions by simply holding their phones up
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If you’ve ever owned a safety deposit box at a bank—or seen one on TV or in a movie—then you know that it requires two keys to open it. If you recall the beginning of the movie War Games it
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It has been proven repeatedly that passwords alone are a weak form of authentication. Two-factor authentication adds an element of complexity that makes it more secure, but also much less convenient. The solution may lie in risk-based authentication—an authentication mechanism
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Windows 10 is ramping up to possibly be the most iconic operating system Microsoft has released in two decades. Microsoft provided another sneak peek into a new biometric authentication feature called Windows Hello that will provide instant access to users
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There are a few common threads that seem to exist across the major data breaches of the last couple years. One of those is the fact that the attackers are often accessing the network and stealing gigabytes or terabytes of
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Save the date: October 30 at 1pm Eastern / 10am Pacific. BeyondTrust is hosting a live Web event presented by SANS instructor Dave Shackleford titled “Why Password Authentication is Broken, and How to Fix It.” Here is what the event
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It would be much more convenient if you could just walk into your house, or get into your car without having to first unlock the door. It would be more convenient if you could just walk from the front of
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When I began my career in IT as a network admin, a fair amount of my time was dedicated to just adding new users, removing users who had left the company, or changing permissions for users who switched roles or
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Definition: Biometrics is a form of authentication using unique physical traits of the user. Unlike a password, a hacker cannot guess your fingerprint or retinal scan pattern. Biometrics is a relatively new term used to refer to fingerprinting, retinal scans,
