U.S. OPM cyberattacks were not state-sponsored, says China’s news agency
China’s news agency Xinhua said an investigation into last year’s U.S. federal system breach that compromised the private information of…
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Identity theft cases in Mexico increase six times in four years
According to some reports, identity theft is the fastest growing crime in the world and in Mexico the number of…
Massachusetts identity imposters head to New Hampshire to avoid RMV facial recognition
A growing number of Massachusetts-based fraudsters are crossing state borders to New Hampshire in an effort to go undetected by…
Welcome to the biometrics age!
This is a guest post by Steve Cook, Director of Business Development at Facebanx. The biometrics age is upon us….
Hoyos Labs’ Biometrics Open Protocol Standard approved by IEEE
Hoyos Labs announced that the Standards Association of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has approved standard 2410-2015…
Qatar bank deploys IrisGuard iris recognition technology
Qatar bank QNB is implementing an iris recognition solution by IrisGuard at its branches and ATMs, making it the first…
Data breach aftermath: recent online fraud trends to watch for
This is a guest post by Ryan Wilk, director of customer success at NuData Security Unlike previous ecommerce industry breaches,…
Facial recognition used on Ghana voters list: NPP claims to have found 76k fake voters
Ghanaian opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) claims that the party used facial recognition technology to discover that there are 76,000…
Arizona DOT implementing facial recognition technology to curb identity theft
The Arizona Department of Transportation announced it is implementing facial recognition technology for the application process for state-issued credentials in…
Stopping identity theft before it starts: the power of behavioral biometrics
This is a guest post by Ryan Wilk, director of Customer Success, NuData Security. According to the “2014 Data Breach…
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