The future might replace passwords with mobile authentication. Recently the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced on 17 February this year that it launched a new standards effort in view of a different web authentication method – “a more secure and flexible alternative to password-based log-
Lately many cyber-security online sources warned enterprises of the business email compromise scheme (also known as the BEC scam), and they do this for a good reason: this fraud method has spiked over the last few months. BEC attacks are a particular type of spear phishing, and four organizations
Fingerprint scanners have had primitive aspects throughout history. The use of fingerprints (or more exactly handprints) in authentication dates back to 1858. Sir William Herschel, Chief Magistrate, introduced the identification via handprint for his civil service employees in India. It took about
Shadow data is a logical derivative of shadow IT, an organizational issue that we have approached in a previous article on our MobileCurated publication. When “intra-enterprise information-technology solutions (…) compensate the busy schedule of the official IT department”, organizational data meets
We come into contact with numerous digital files every day, but some of them might not be what they seem at first glance; designated by the term “steganography”, the practice of concealing a message in a different cover-message precedes the era of cybernetics. A sub-section of cryptography, ste
One of early 2016’s cyber-security incidents consisted in the Hyatt hotel chain disclosure that almost half of its global payment processing systems endpoints have been infested with PoS malware, active for 6 months during 2015. A Kasperky Lab blog pointed out, the situation is not singular and p
