If you haven’t read How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking from Wired author Mat Honan, you must. It’s a frightening tale of just how easily a hacker can orchestrate an account take over on multiple … Continue reading
What’s the magic number for knowledge based authentication (KBA) in the mobile payments industry? According to a report by Aite Group, a Boston-based research and consulting firm, it’s 40…40% of payments executives are using KBA already and another 40% plan … Continue reading
After almost 6 months the long anticipated FFIEC guidelines update has been issued. And as suspected, shared secret questions (What’s your mother’s maiden name? What’s your favorite food?) are not enough anymore. Banks should deploy out-of-wallet technologies (aka dynamic knowledge … Continue reading
The recent roll out of Google’s 2-step authentication to the general public means a higher level of authentication than just entering a username and password to access your gmail account. This is good news for the identity verification market. Google … Continue reading
Sorry both John and I have been missing in action for a few weeks. But on the bright side, the lack of blog posts of late means this one is jammed packed full of relevant identity news! I’ll start by … Continue reading
On December 17, 2008 we submitted a supplemental Member Statement to the Internet Safety Technical Task Force’s Final Report. The report was delivered to the Attorneys General on December 23 and made public today. The final report was not a … Continue reading
Usually when I explain what KBA (knowledge-based authentication) is most people think it’s really cool. Even though KBA solutions have been around since early 2000, the reality is businesses using this technology are considered early adopters – mainly because consumers … Continue reading