The Theft of The Century, or Why Do News Websites Need Two-Factor Authentication?
Why Is Two-Factor Authentication Necessary? Increasingly more companies are using two-factor authentication in their online operations. Sometimes, it surprises or even annoys their users. They may think: why waste my precious time on entering additional characters? Isn’t a password sufficient? With the widely spread advanced computer technologies, we have possibilities that our parents could only read about in science fiction novels....
Selfie Based Authentication in Banking System: “Latest Fad” or Increased Protection Reliability?
It is no secret that for a long time now MasterCard has been working on solving the problem of authentication in the banking system and testing an application that would use traditional two-factor authentication to authenticate customers and authorize online purchases based on the face recognition technology and not numerical codes. In other words, to be able to pay with a credit card online, the card holder would have to take a...
Protectimus team at Startup Crash Test #2
September 4 in Kharkiv was held a non-profit event Startup Crash Test #2. The main purpose of the event was to test the strength of the startups, which took part in it. Startups’ teams had a chance to talk about their ideas and marketing strategies. They heard a lot of constructive criticism from IT professionals. And they learned several useful tips that can help them to achieve success in the future. The Protectimus Company became...