At the annual RSA Conference in San Francisco, Pindrop shared the results of a recent study on voice biometric authentication. The research tracked 122 speakers in six languages (Italian, English, German, French, Dutch and Spanish), and found that the error rates of voice biometrics could double from 4%- to 8% in two-years. This data emphasizes the need for multifactor … [Read more...]
University Hijacked by Vending Machines
According to Network World, an unnamed university’s vending machines, smart light bulbs and 5,000 other IoT devices were recently hijacked. Sounds fishy, huh? As it turned out, the attack on the school's internal network was actually caused by a series of seafood-related DNS requests that appeared every fifteen minutes. This story comes from a preview of Verizon’s 2017 Data … [Read more...]
Protect Your IaaS Properties from Attacks in 2017
The public cloud has become an essential piece of everyday business operations, with Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions like Amazon’s AWS and Microsoft Azure exploding over the past several years. And while the public cloud provides countless new opportunities for businesses big and small, it’s continued growth has also made it a major focus for criminal … [Read more...]
What You Need to Know About Biometrics
Pay your bills online? Password. Amazon Prime shopper? Password. Need to login into your Instagram? Password. Every account we use online requires a password, and the risks associated with weak or compromised passwords have become astronomical. Biometric technology has been touted as a brave new solution to this problem, but can biometrics alone provide any more security than … [Read more...]
Password Security is Paramount
Yahoo’s mega-breach made headlines again this week, as the company has now admitted that employees knew about the attack when it first happened. As you might recall, the company announced in September 2016 that an unknown attacker gained access to 500 million user accounts back in 2014. Yahoo users’ email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, security questions and answers, … [Read more...]