Michael Mongold
Bank accounts hacked for over 1 million dollars
Last month, a British bank and its customers were hit by a coordinated and targeted attack by criminals that launched their efforts from Eastern Eu rope. In an impressive display of a ...
Researchers hack your vehicle (again)
A few months ago, researchers with the University of Washington and UC San Diego released a paper detailing their "Experimental Security Analysis of a Modern Automobile". It presented a dark story where ...
Intelligence Analyst poking around gets the shaft
If you’re going to have security clearance at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, then you should know that anytime you step out of your designated dataset, someone is going to know. That’s why ...
US Government moves towards OpenID
Jason Miller reports for Federal News Radio about the US government’s attempts to consolidate logins and potentially integrate current PIV card holders into a unified authentication and identity repository for accessing government ...
Implementing Identity Management? What to ask
This is a nice primer for those who don’t know where to start when contemplating an identity management solution. As with most things in technology security, knowing the right questions at the ...
Legal Hazards of Federated Identity
Beyond the technical complexities of Identity Federation, Thomas Smedinghoff explains what is truly holding back wider-spread adoption of federated identification models. “’Who are you?’ is a fundamental question for all online business ...
The breadth and complexities of identity management
From multi-factor authentication to single sign-on to user provisioning: identity management can be an incredibly broad and complex endeavor. In a great article, Drew Robb writing for GCN gives a high level ...
Lenovo facial recognition = fail
Well, sort of. It did recognize the face but unfortunately it was a picture of the face on a phone. Again, we have some not-so-great press for facial recognition. And sadly, this ...
Biometric surveillance forecast to surge
In a forecast from Acuity Market Intelligence, the market share of biometric surveillance applications within the biometric industry will reach $872 million in annual revenue by 2017. According to new forecasts from ...
Potential chaos looms for Philippine elections and biometric enrollment
MANILA, Philippines—The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has urged voters to verify before October 31 the status of their registration to know if they need to enroll their biometrics or reactivate their registration ...
