Security News
There are not only more users, but also more kinds of users working in more places, all needing to authenticate in a way that keeps resources secure without making access unduly difficult or time-consuming. You need an authentication solution that allows you to authenticate users in multiple ways, both to meet different users' needs for convenient access and to make multi-factor authentication possible for security purposes.
The proliferation of real-time payments platforms, including person-to-person transfers and mobile payment platforms across Asia Pacific, has increased fraud losses for the majority of banks. "While the convenience of real-time payments is great news for customers, increasingly, banks have zero time to clear a transaction or payment. AI can't slow down the clock, but it can help create systems that are radically quicker to recognize a transaction that smells likely to be fraudulent," said Dan McConaghy, president of FICO in Asia Pacific.
Entersekt described the latest implementations of its authentication technology in Europe's DACH region. Entersekt's authentication solution allows consumers to approve their e-commerce payments with one touch of their banks' mobile apps.
On Monday, Google pushed out an update for the iOS version of Smart Lock, its built-in, on-by-default password manager. Smart Lock - which has been available for Google's Chrome browser since 2017 - now also lets iOS users set up their device as the second factor in two-factor authentication, meaning that you no longer have to carry around a separate security key dongle.
Google is testing out a feature to make Android's built-in password manager safer, according to online sleuths who have picked apart its software. You could use it to take autofill input from third-party password managers, or if you wanted to keep everything in your Google account, you could use autofill with Google's own password management service.
Neustar, a global information services company and leader in customer identity solutions, has expanded its digital identity risk portfolio to address the needs of companies looking for a more flexible customer identity authentication solution. Neustar Digital Identity Risk Pro provides best-in-class fraud prevention by incorporating more than 200 data points - including device-based verification, device behavioral attributes, IP-based verification, IP-based behavioral attributes, geolocation signals and deep online-to-offline identity linkage analysis using the Neustar OneID system - to generate a device score, an IP score and an overall identity risk score.
Benefit Vantage, developer of IPification seamless authentication solution, and leading mobile operator 3 Hong Kong, are proud to announce the deployment of IPification mobile authentication solution. "Integrating our solution into 3 Hong Kong's mobile network and providing the best mobile authentication technology to the Hong Kong market is an important milestone for us," said Harry Cheung, Founder and President of IPification.
In order to meet the unique needs of the diverse and growing market for biometric access control, world-leading biometrics company Fingerprint Cards AB announces the expansion of its fingerprint authentication touch sensor portfolio, for physical and logical access devices and applications. Two additional capacitive touch sensors are now available in the access series, FPC1020 and FPC1024, featuring high biometric performance and a small physical footprint.
Interesting story of how a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group is bypassing the RSA SecurID two-factor authentication system. How they did it remains unclear; although, the Fox-IT team has their...
Prepare your applications and users for big changes on 13 October 2020.