Microsoft Touts New Phone-Based Login Mechanism

It likely won’t mark the death knell of passwords but Microsoft announced this week its giving users a new way to sign into their accounts without having to enter a lengthy combination of numbers, letters and characters. The feature, which relies on users having access to their mobile phones, is...

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National Cyber Security Awareness Month

October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month, an annual campaign to raise awareness about cybersecurity. In partnership with DHS, the National Cyber Security Alliance has released the first in a series of tips focused on helping people protect their online activities and increase their...

NIST Recommends SMS Two-Factor Authentication Deprecation

A U.S. government agency said the end is nigh for SMS-based two-factor authentication, citing a lack of security around the feature. The latest draft version of the Digital Authentication Guideline issued this week by the U.S. National Institute for Standards and Technology NIST said the practice...

End of SMS-based 2-Factor Authentication; Yes, It's Insecure!

SMS-based Two-Factor Authentication 2FA has been declared insecure and soon it might be a thing of the past. Two-Factor Authentication or 2FA adds an extra step of entering a random passcode sent to you via an SMS or call when you log in to your account as an added layer of protection. For exampl...

Google Trust API plans to replace your Passwords with Trust Score

The importance of increasing online security around personal information has risen due to the increase in cyber attacks and data breaches over recent years. I find it hilarious people are still choosing terrible passwords to protect their online accounts. The massive LinkedIn hack is the latest i...

NSA Wants To Track Smartphone Users Based on How They Type and Swipe

Just the way you swipe your smartphone screen is enough for your smartphone to identify you. Yes, it’s a Fact, not Fiction! The United States National Security Agency NSA has a new technology that can identify you from the way your finger swipe strokes and text on a smartphone screen, according t...

Verizon to Bolster Authentication with QR Codes

If you want to know what the future holds for authentication on the web, it all depends whom you ask. Some say it’ll come in the form of biometrics – iris and fingerprint scans, etc. Others say the answer lies in a tangle of constantly changing two-factor verification codes users need to punch in...

Exclusive : New Touch ID hack allows hacker to unlock an iPhone by multiple fingerprints

The Iranian group defeated the very basic phenomenon of an iPhone Fingerprinting scanner, which allows them to unlock an iPhone device with multiple Fingerprints. Apple's iPhone 5s, was launched just available in stores two weeks before with a new feature of biometrics-based security system calle...

Exclusive : New Touch ID hack allows hacker to unlock an iPhone by multiple fingerprints

The Iranian group defeated the very basic phenomenon of an iPhone Fingerprinting scanner, which allows them to unlock an iPhone device with multiple Fingerprints. Apple‘s iPhone 5s, was launched just available in stores two weeks before with a new feature of biometrics-based security system calle...

Hackers Bypass iPhone 5S Touch ID

Hackers from the venerable Chaos Computer Club in Germany have found a method for bypassing the new iPhone 5S Touch ID fingerprint security mechanism. The method, which is the first known technique for circumventing the iPhone’s newest security feature, involves taking a picture of a user’s...

Could Smart-Watches Replace Passwords as Authenticators?

Good passwords are hard to remember while passwords that are easily remembered are often just as easily guessed. Therein lies the reason passwords are such a security headache. The race to replace passwords is ever-present in the security industry, and the newest entrant is the smart-watch. “If t...

DARPA, FIDO Alliance Join Race to Replace Passwords

Nearly everyone agrees that passwords are the bane of Internet security. For years, industry thinkers have somewhat vaguely referenced the need for Internet fingerprints capable of reliably verifing identities online. Yet here we are, it’s 2013 and passwords remain the primary means of...

iGuard Security Access Control System Cross Site Scripting

Tile ==== iGuard Security Access Control System Webserver, Cross Site Scripting XSS Author ====== Usman Saeed , Xc0re Security Research Group Website : http://www.xc0re.net Twitter : http://twitter.com/xc0resecurity Blog : http://www.xc0re.net/blog Published :...

The Genetic Log-in

DNA has been in use as a biometric identifier for some time. But as the O.J. trial proved, DNA analysis takes time, costs a lot of money and requires a lab to process – often creating the opening for challenges as to the accuracy of the test results. That’s the reason that, despite its utility, D...

Want lunch? Palm it over

Fed up with using swipe cards and PINs for their students’ lunch payments, a school board district in Clearwater, Fla. recently partnered with microelectronic company Fujitsu to use palm vein readers for nearly half of their 102,000 students. Pinellas County School Board District spent $120,000 t...

DARPA Wants a "Cognitive Fingerprint"

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA is the wellspring of U.S. government technology innovation. Now the agency is looking at what they’ve called a “cognitive fingerprint.” DARPA’s main goal with the project is to bypass what’s become the “current standard method,” for...

Typing Test

Researchers at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon have been working on software that doesn’t analyze what passwords are typed, but rather how words are typed. Researchers Ravel Jabbour, Wes Mastri and Ali El-Hajj have found that examining the speed and rhythm of the user’s keystrokes...

Biometrics' Researchers Say Follow Your Nose

Forget iris and fingerprint scans — scanning noses could be a quicker and easier way to verify a person’s identity, according to scientists at the University of Bath. With worries about illegal immigration and identity theft, authorities are increasingly looking to using an individual’s physical...

Security B-Sides Panel Talks Authentication

For years, leaders of the security industry have warned that passwords have outlived their usefulness. Users pick easy-to-crack passwords like the name of a dog or a favorite movie. They’re written on post-it notes and left sticking to the monitor for all to see. Multi-factor authentication — usi...