Meta changed how two-factor authentication works for Facebook and Instagram last year. You might have received notifications about this, but it was easy to miss in the platform’s sea of red alerts. OK, so what’s different? “Any devices you’ve frequently used Facebook on in the past two years will be automatically trusted,” reads Meta’s updated … Read more
Gary Gensler, chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), speaks during an event at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, US.Photo: Nathan Howard/Bloomberg (Getty Images) The Securities and Exchange Commission’s primary X account was hacked on Tuesday, the social media site has confirmed. The account, which falsely tweeted about a much-anticipated Bitcoin … Read more
Amazon’s cloud computing subsidiary AWS (Amazon Web Services) has lifted the lid on a new palm-scanning identity service that allows companies to authenticate people when entering physical premises. The announcement comes as part of AWS’s annual Re:Invent conference, which is running in Las Vegas for the duration of this week. Amazon One Enterprise, as the … Read more
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Microsoft’s Windows Hello fingerprint authentication has been bypassed on laptops from Dell, Lenovo, and even Microsoft. Security researchers at Blackwing Intelligence have discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the top three fingerprint sensors that are embedded into laptops and used widely by businesses to secure laptops with Windows Hello fingerprint authentication. Microsoft’s Offensive Research and Security Engineering … Read more
Prove Identity, the smartphone-based identity verification startup that originally made its name years ago as Payfone before rebranding in 2020, has raised $40 million. According to the company, the funding is coming in at a “unicorn status” valuation which would pip it past the $1 billion mark. The company, which has around 1,000 business customers, … Read more
iOS 17 has been here for a couple of weeks now, and it’s brought many new and exciting features to compatible iPhones, including the ability to create your own contact poster, the brand-new StandBy mode, the Journal app and more. Among these new features is the ability to automatically delete all the two-factor authentication codes … Read more
You’ve heard the recommendation for years: Activate two-factor authentication all over the place it’s supplied. It’s lengthy been clear that utilizing solely a username and password to safe digital accounts isn’t sufficient. However layering on a further authentication “issue”—like a randomly generated code or a bodily token—makes the keys to your kingdom a lot more … Read more