Q: What are the pros and cons of using a third-party authentication app? A: Every user of the internet should be familiar with the security concept known as two-factor authentication (2FA), which ...

The fact that plain passwords are no longer safe to protect our digital identities is no secret. For years, the use of two-factor authentication (2FA) and multi-factor authentication (MFA) as a means ...

Authentication controls, such as passwords and restricted access rights, are a primary layer of protection between an entity’s data and bad actors. Weaknesses in these controls can leave systems ...

Fujitsu has announced a new way to pay that is not only cardless, but also touchless, with the non-contact technology able to identify a person using only their palm vein and facial data. According to ...

As today's IT infrastructures become more fragmented across cloud-based applications and mobile devices, enterprise network boundaries are all but disappearing. At the same time, the 'consumerization' ...

Everyone agrees that authenticating your identity to log in, whether at work or at home, is usually either quite easy but not secure at all or very secure but painfully difficult. People naturally ...

Programmers now can use the OAuth standard to tap into information through Google's data-sharing interface. Also, Google Data comes to Google Finance. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

In all the ongoing buzz around influencer marketing and its ever-growing appeal to brands of all kinds, there’s one topic that rarely gets mentioned: the importance of first-party authenticated data.

Dropbox is rolling out stronger security to protect data stored in the cloud. Following in Google’s footsteps, Dropbox is enhancing account security with optional two-factor authentication. Dropbox is ...