Biometric Authentication Pros and Cons
If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can’t get a new thumb. The failure modes are very different. – Bruce Schneier The popularity and availability of information technologies are constantly increasing. And at the same time increases the number of threats associated with their use. The main one is the danger of critical information leakage – both personal and corporate....
Two-Factor Authentication 2015: Opportunities and Prospects
Modern technologies have brought a lot of conveniences and opportunities into our lives, but also sharply reduced the chances of complete privacy. Photos that are not intended for prying eyes, credit card numbers, passwords for accounts in social networks and e-mail services, business documents stored in cloud services, the hand of a hacker is able to reach all this with little to no effort. Traditionally one of the most vulnerable...
Microsoft Patents Hard-to-Mimic Gesture-Based Authentication
It’s hard to imagine the modern rhythm of everyday life without gadgets, to which we are so accustomed. The first computer could perform only a limited number of functions. Its length was about 17 meters, the height of more than 2.5 meters, it weighed 4.5 tons and covered an area of several dozen square meters. Half a century later multifunctional gadgets became a thousand times smaller in size and instantly perform tasks that...
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...
Ideal Authentication
Creativity is the art of compromise. One gifted artist may never receive recognition during his lifetime and die penniless (Vincent Van Gogh). Another one may mass-produce a painting a day to order and bask in his glory (Boris Kustodiev). Time was the final judge as to the talent and merit of these two artists and their works, but it happened only after they died. The procedure of authenticity verification is a kind of art, too. For a...