Security News
Microsoft president Brad Smith said the software giant's analysis of the SolarWinds hack suggests the code behind the crack was the work of a thousand or more developers. Speaking on US news magazine program 60 Minutes, Smith labelled the attack "The largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ever seen."
If you've purchased a FEITIAN FIDO2 device and can't seem to get it working with Linux, Jack Wallen shows you how. That's fundamentally how FIDO2 works, and there are plenty of companies that make such devices.
Mastercard has teamed up with IDEMIA and MatchMove on their first pilot in Asia of a biometric card that uses a fingerprint to authorize transactions at in-store payment terminals. Developed by IDEMIA in accordance with Mastercard's technical and design specifications, F.CODE Easy ensures privacy and security by storing all biometric credentials on the card chip rather than a central database.
Over a year has passed since Nmap had last been updated, but this weekend Gordon "Fyodor" Lyon announced Nmap 7.90. First and foremost, Nmap 7.90 comes with Npcap 1.0.0, the first completely stable version of the raw packet capturing/sending driver for Windows.
To this effect, cybersecurity researchers on Friday detailed a new methodology to identify exploit authors that use their unique characteristics as a fingerprint to track down other exploits developed by them. "Instead of focusing on an entire malware and hunting for new samples of the malware family or actor, we wanted to offer another perspective and decided to concentrate on these few functions that were written by an exploit developer," Check Point Research's Itay Cohen and Eyal Itkin noted.
Biometric payment cards with an integrated fingerprint sensor make contactless payments more convenient, more secure and hygienic. Infineon Technologies and Fingerprint Cards have joined forces to enable mass deployment of this emerging solution.
You can easily add a fingerprint reader to your computer if one isn't already built in. If you have a laptop without a built-in reader, or you want to add fingerprint recognition to your desktop PC, you can enlist the aid of a third-party reader.
GeoVision, a Taiwanese manufacturer of video surveillance systems and IP cameras, recently patched three of the four critical flaws impacting its card and fingerprint scanners that could've potentially allowed attackers to intercept network traffic and stage man-in-the-middle attacks. The first issue concerns a previously undocumented root password that permits an attacker backdoor access to a device by simply using the default password and remotely log in to the vulnerable device.
BOE Technology Group and Qualcomm Technologies announce their plans to establish a strategic collaboration to develop innovative display products featuring Qualcomm 3D Sonic ultrasonic fingerprint sensors. This collaboration is expected to extend from mobile and associated 5G technologies to XR and IoT. BOE's expertise in interface devices and smart IoT systems combined with Qualcomm Technologies' broad product portfolio, makes this an ideal collaboration for the 5G era, in which consumers can expect extraordinary performance improvements resulting from the tight integration of both Companies' multiple key technologies, including sensors, antennae, display picture processing, etc.
OnePlus 7 Pro devices made by China-based smartphone manufacturer OnePlus Technology were affected by a vulnerability that could have been exploited to obtain users' fingerprints. Synopsys will release technical details at a later date, but a brief advisory made public on Tuesday reveals that the vulnerability could have been exploited by a malicious Android application with root privileges on the targeted OnePlus 7 Pro phone to obtain bitmap fingerprint images from the device's trusted execution environment, an area designed to keep sensitive data and code isolated and protected against unauthorized access.