Security News
If you use Bitwarden as your password manager of choice, you owe it to yourself to enable two-factor authentication. If you've opted to make use of the open source Bitwarden password manager, you've made a wise choice.
We have a bunch of new security patches from Switchzilla, including one for a critical hole in its call-center software. CVE-2020-3280 is a remote-code-execution vulnerability in the Java remote management interface for Unified Contact Center Express.
We have a bunch of new security patches from Switchzilla, including one for a critical hole in its call-center software. CVE-2020-3280 is a remote-code-execution vulnerability in the Java remote management interface for Unified Contact Center Express.
BehavioSec, the first vendor to pioneer behavioral biometrics, announced its technology is helping global enterprise quickly adapt to meet user authentication challenges resulting from the dramatic transition to remote work environments while reducing reliance on cost prohibitive legacy solutions. Utilizing the BehavioSec Behavioral Biometrics Platform, organizations are improving business agility, advancing workforce access and achieving cost savings with deep authentication that continuously validates users using their own unique behavior patterns.
With a third of the population currently working remotely and great uncertainty regarding when this situation is going to change, organizations must shift their business operations to support long-term remote working. According to a recent Gartner survey, the biggest barrier to effective remote work is poor technology and/or infrastructure for remote work.
Secret Double Octopus the pioneer of passwordless enterprise authentication, announced the closing of a $15 million Series B round to address the rapidly growing need for passwordless authentication and remote-access security in enterprise environments. Secret Double Octopus is considered a global leader in password elimination solutions.
Tel Aviv, Israel-based Secret Double Octopus has raised $15 million in a Series B funding round from Sony Financial Ventures, KDDI, and Global Brain as well as prior investors. The firm provides passwordless authentication for enterprises, and is eyeing the growing WFH market.
Both Microsoft and Google have postponed a change that would have forced better application security by shutting down an insecure access protocol called Basic Authentication. Specified in RFC 2617, Basic Authentication is a method of logging applications into online services using a simple username and password combination sent in an HTTP header.
Cisco has conducted a research project on bypassing fingerprint authentication systems and it achieved a success rate of roughly 80 percent, but the company's experts were unsuccessful against Windows devices. In the case of mobile phones, the researchers bypassed fingerprint authentication on a majority of devices.
Ping Identity, the Intelligent Identity solution for the enterprise, announced the availability of PingID multi-factor authentication in AWS Marketplace. Customers can now quickly procure and deploy PingID to secure work from home while adding an additional layer of security to their AWS infrastructure.