As well as being a partner at Accourt, Neira Jones is chair of the Cybercrime Advisory Board at the Centre for Strategic Cyberspace + Security Science (CSCSS), and the problems of identity and ...

As banks have adopted multifactor customer authentication systems, they have inadvertently made it more difficult for many ...

Update 5/20: Microsoft now considers these authentication problems to be resolved, having released “out-of-band” updates on May 19, as described here. Microsoft this week acknowledged possible ...

There are more headlines each day about hacks and data breaches that can be blamed on authentication shortcomings, yet industry news claims that new authentication methods are making us more secure.

It appears many Mail users are having authentication problems in which they are prompted for the username and password every time a message is sent (either manually ...

E-mail authentication can help fight the growing spam e-mail problem, but vendors need to come up with a single, open standard to avoid confusion and crippling costs for small ISPs (Internet service ...

A number of Microsoft Azure and Office 365 users have been unable to get into their accounts for most of the day on November 19. The problem: A multi-factor authentication issue which hit users ...

Users are experiencing problems with authentication for iTunes content. These issues affect playback/usage of audio files and iPhone applications. The applications will work if the user goes to the ...

These scams rely on tricking consumers into believing they are interacting with a trusted vendor. Here’s how vendors can prevent the scams. My 11 ways to hack 2FA column a few weeks ago continues to ...

Human relationships rely on trust, which is why the true history of authentication extends back long before the first written documents referencing it. I suspect that as early as humans formed tribes, ...