by Jeremy Cruz | May 23, 2016 | News, Security
Last week, James Clapper, the U.S. director of national intelligence, said there have been “some indications” that foreign hackers have been targeting the presidential campaigns of Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders. The FBI and the...
by Brian | Aug 19, 2015 | Authentication, News, Security
So new this week is the idea of “Sound Proof” authentication. The idea is that the microphone on your device would listen to the background noise where you are and determine if you are who you say you are. From one standpoint, it sounds great: you...
by Brian | Aug 18, 2015 | Authentication, Security
So I ran across this article the other day about the number of companies still using password-only authentication. Now looking at the actual survey, and it says that in 2015, 39% of respondents reported using only passwords for their authentication, but I think the...
by Brian | Jul 26, 2015 | Authentication, New Threats, Security
Possibly the biggest security news this past week was the announcement of a bug in OpenSSH that opens it to password cracking. Normally, OpenSSH restricts the number failed authentication attempts that can occur on an account, but the recently discovered bug can allow...
by Brian | Jun 8, 2015 | Authentication, Security
So I ran across this interesting article on a new biometric, this time a brain scan while you think about specific acronyms. The thing I like most about this is that it seems to answer one of my main complaints about biometrics: that you can’t change them. If...
by Brian | May 28, 2015 | News, Security
So I came across this interesting article about an insurance company that paid for the cost of a breach is now suing to get the money back from the insured company because of poor security practices. This potentially has huge consequences for organizations of any...
