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The Expanding Under and Unbanked Market – How to Verify Thin Files

What is a thin file? A thin file is basically just that – the “file” or information on a particular individual is thin or rather, lacking sufficient credit history. Typically, this could mean that the individual is young, as they … Continue reading

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How Apple & Amazon Can Prevent Account Take-Over

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

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Will the new FFIEC guidelines do away with Shared Secrets?

Let’s hope so.  For awhile this blog has relayed the dangers of using shared secret questions as a means of authenticating customers.  And based on some of the articles from those who were able to review the preliminary draft of … Continue reading

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Google Steps Up Its Authentication Practices

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

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How to Prevent Fraud this Holiday Shopping Season

It’s hard to believe that Black Friday and Cyber Monday are less than a week away.  For all you digital shoppers, I recently worked with Yarbena Arar at Macworld to provide some online safety and security tips we as consumers … Continue reading

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5 Things A Business Should Do During Internet Safety Month

June is national Internet Safety Month.  Of course we should be mindful of Internet Safety all year long, but this month was designated by the U.S. Senate three years ago to be the official awareness month (not to be confused … Continue reading

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The Yellow Brick Fraud Road

The news about Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke becoming a victim of ID theft resulting in a financial crime scares the living daylights out of me.  It used to be more of an inconvenience if your purse was stolen or … Continue reading

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“Secret Questions” Give Dynamic KBA a Bad Wrap

One of the biggest misconceptions we are constantly addressing is the confusion between shared secret questions and dynamic knowledge based authentication questions. And this week’s IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy isn’t helping to clear up the confusion since Microsoft … Continue reading

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Age Verification Research

As an identity and age verification provider IDology continually monitors the market to stay up to date on the issues surrounding online identity and age verification. Today I thought I would share with you what we have recently compiled for … Continue reading

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Annual Fraud Report Hot Off the Press

I got the early edition of Cybersource’s 9th annual fraud report today. I haven’t had time to fully absorb/read all of the information but there were some facts that jumped out at me: 82% of merchants are manually checking orders … Continue reading

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