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The latest Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) data revealed that passwords are problematic. If that’s the case, why are organizations so slow to adopt passwordless authentication?
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Aggregation of data by governments
Biometric identifiers present a unique and insurmountable challenge to privacy and safety. Avoiding enrollment in centralized biometric databases is becoming impractical.
Australia – Pho… Continue reading Maintaining privacy in the age of biometrics? [on hold]
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Why do we even use passwords / passphrases next to biometrics?
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The UK government should suspend trials of automatic facial recognition systems until it can meet regulators’ concerns about the technology, according to a report released Friday. Continue reading Stop facial recognition trials now, warns UK committee
David Harding is the SVP & Chief Technology Officer at ImageWare Systems, Inc. Identity authentication is more important now than at any other time in history. Today’s methods such as 2-factor authentication are falling short and are not as s… Continue reading Identity Authentication, David Harding – Enterprise Security Weekly #145
In part one of our two-part series, we explored how biometric authentication methods are being defeated. In the second part, we’ll explore how manipulating biometrics can alter society, and what can be done to avoid a biometric dystopia. Biometric auth… Continue reading Avoiding a biometric dystopia
Although we hackers will sometimes deliberately throw away our passwords and then try and hack our own phones / WIFI systems for self amusement, for many people including the actual inventor of the password, Fernardo “Corby” Corbató (1926-2019), passwords have become extremely burdensome and dis-functional.
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via superlative reportage from DJ Pangburn, we now learn of the ineptitude of US governmental oversight officials (and the Agencies, Bureaus, Departments, and Branches of Federal Government they service) tasked with protecting gathered and stored biom… Continue reading Weak-Kneed Oversight, The Clowns Of Biometric Data Security
Although biometric face-recognition security tech is now becoming quite common on devices such as smartphones, it does still require a lot of processing power. In the not-too-distant future, however, the same purpose could be served by an integrated piece of analog glass.
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MIT Technology Review is reporting about an infrared laser device that can identify people by their unique cardiac signature at a distance: A new device, developed for the Pentagon after US Special Forces requested it, can identify people without seein… Continue reading Cardiac Biometric