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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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