A coordinated campaign has been observed targeting a recently disclosed critical-severity vulnerability that has been present ...

Websites that authenticate users through links and codes sent in text messages are imperiling the privacy of millions of ...

Fortinet on Wednesday said it observed "recent abuse" of a five-year-old security flaw in FortiOS SSL VPN in the wild under certain configurations. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2020-12812 ...

Abstract: Biometrics have been widely applied for user authentication. However, existing biometric authentications are vulnerable to biometric spoofing, because they can be observed and forged. In ...

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Sept 24 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms' (META.O), opens new tab Instagram has grown to 3 billion Monthly Active Users, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Wednesday, marking another milestone for one of the most ...

A critical LDAP injection vulnerability exists in the plugin’s login flow. Unsanitized user input is embedded directly into an LDAP search filter without proper escaping, allowing an attacker to ...

Microsoft is on a mission to stop you using passwords. In just three weeks, the company will delete passwords saved within its Authenticator app, which will just be for passkeys moving forward. But it ...

Exploring how keystroke dynamics can be used to enhance the user authentication experience. What’s in the scientific paper? This scientific paper by Fime explores how keystroke dynamics can be used to ...

WhatsApp now has more than 3 billion people using it every month, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg noted during the company’s Q1 results conference call on Wednesday. Founded in 2009 and acquired by Facebook ...

Attackers exploit human nature, making authentication a prime target. The Snowflake data breach is a clear example – hackers used stolen customer credentials, many which lacked multi-factor ...

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