Using trusted identities to fight fraud and reduce customer friction The past years was marred by data breaches, hacks and data theft. With every successful cyber attack, the black market for personally identifiable information grew, widening the pool for hackers to buy stolen identities and engage in fraud. These crimes …
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Passwords are the most common form of authentication used to control access to information because they are simple, inexpensive, and convenient mechanisms to use and implement. At the same time, passwords are also recognised as being an extremely poor form of protection. There are over 10 million username/password pair attacks …
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On February 23rd, a joint team from the Dutch CWI University and Google announced that they had generated the first ever collision in the SHA-1 cryptographic hashing algorithm. This industry standard is used in digital signatures and for file integrity verification, which secure credit card transactions, electronic documents. Another application …
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When users access online services, they want to be confident that nobody else can log in pretending to be them, access their sensitive personal data or use their identity to make fraudulent claims. Users want to be confident that their data and services are secured and their privacy is protected. Governments, …
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