Authentification

Adele Fans Claiming Personal Data Breach

Those looking to buy tickets on Adele.com say they saw details of other customers when logging out

9 years ago

Dell Helps PC Owners Remove ‘Superfish-Like’ Rogue Certificate

Dell confirms it installed certificate but says it was to help customer service, nohing malicious

9 years ago

Superfish-Like Rogue Certificates ‘Found Pre-installed’ On Dell PCs

A number of Dell users say they found self-signed root certificates on their laptops and want to know why and…

9 years ago

Amazon Adds Two Factor Authentication For Online Shopping

Users can now opt for two-factor authentication to help protect themselves against fraud

9 years ago

Nadella: Microsoft Is Uniquely Positioned To Combat Cyber Threats

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says cloud-first Microsoft's scope means it can help make IT more secure, but industry collaboration is…

9 years ago

Biometrics – Where Technology And Storytelling Meet

Matthew Maxwell, associate creative director at marketing firm SapientNitro, discusses the art of identity technology

9 years ago

Shoppers Could Soon Use Their Veins To Authenticate Payments

Fingopay from Visa Europe Collab uses finger vein pattern authentication technology to provide more secure authentication

9 years ago

Is Your Password Up To The Challenge?

Lookout's Gert-Jan Schenk shares some of his top password tips

9 years ago

Bitdefender’s Mobile Security Protection Can Snap Thieves In The Act

Security firm also upgrades its mobile security platform to make it easier to access apps on multiple networks

9 years ago

In-App Ad Blocker Been Choice Returns To App Store

Been Choice is back on the App Store after Apple has an unexplained change of heart

9 years ago

Cybercrime Is Now Britain’s Most Common Criminal Offence

Inclusion of more than seven million cyber offences pushes British crime rate up 70 percent, ONS figures reveal

9 years ago

How Can You Deal With The Ransomware Epidemic?

Kaspersky Labs’ David Emm shares some of his top tips to ensure your business stays protected against ransomware

9 years ago

Worldpay Wants To Use Your Face To Stop Card Fraud

Facial recognition technology in new ‘PED Cam’ set to be used to combat crime

9 years ago

IT Security Spending To Reach £50bn, But Human Error Is Still Main Cause Of Data Loss

Spending on security set to grow, but pesky humans still main reason for data losses in organisations

9 years ago

More Than Five Million Fingerprints Stolen In US Government Hack

Office of Personnel Management hack stole over five million fingerprint records of US government staff

9 years ago

As A Society, We Don’t “Do” Passwords Well

Rob Coombs from ARM tells us some top tips to improve our use of passwords

9 years ago

Android Phones Can Be Unlocked By Super Long Passwords

Researchers discover they can crack Android devices just by typing nonsense into password field

9 years ago

IT Life: Safe And Sound

RiskIQ's Ben Harknett talks security, Elon Musk, tennis and more in our look at his IT Life

9 years ago

Telefónica Mobile Alerts To Prevent Fraud And Blocked Cards Abroad

‘Travel Alerts’ service created with TeleSign lets users verify their location with their mobile, avoiding fraud and inconvenience of blocked…

9 years ago

Dropbox Bulks Up Chrome Security With USB Two Factor Authentication

Dropbox now supports USB U2F two factor authentication to protect users from phishing during the login process

9 years ago

Dutch Bank Launches Voice-Activated Password System

ING Netherlands customers can now log in to their accounts simply by speaking

9 years ago

Fujitsu: IT Security ‘Needs To Be For Everyone’

Rob Norris tells TechWeekEurope why education could play a major role in providing the security specialists of the future

9 years ago

Mastercard Wants To Use Your Face To Pay For Things

New facial-scanning authentication security process hopes to launch later this year

9 years ago

Washington Post Tackles Snooping, Encrypts Webite

Major American news outlet encrypts website to protect readers from spies and hackers

9 years ago

More Than Half Of Passwords ‘Can Be Cracked In 24 Hours’

Trustwave Global Security Report shows shocking state of password security around the world

10 years ago

US Tech Firms Warn Obama To Back Off Encryption

Open letter to President Obama highlights tech opposition to efforts to weaken encryption systems

10 years ago

Knowledge Is Power To The Hacker

SecurEnvoy's Steve Watts tells us how hackers are gaining more and more power through unsecured knowledge access points

10 years ago

The Digital Art Of Secure Access

How UserLock enables the School of Engineering & Digital Arts, University of Kent, to provide secure 24-hour access to computer…

10 years ago

NSA Tests Smartphone Handwriting ID Tech

Fact or fiction? Can your smartphone identify you just by the way you type on the keyboard?

10 years ago