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 ...

A number of distinct developments brought about the current authentication schemes we see in networks today.In the '70s, the creators of UNIX recognized that in order to give a number of individuals ...

The world has a huge authentication problem, namely, that we’re utterly terrible at authentication. In 2016 alone, 3 billion passwords were stolen. The reason we’re so bad at authentication is that we ...

Players worldwide are locked out due to widespread server connection issues, with many reporting login failures. The outage, affecting all platforms, is impacting peak holiday gaming hours on ...

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 ...

Reports cropped up across Twitter around 1:30 ET on February 16 from individuals having problems logging into Microsoft's Hotmail, Xbox Live, as well as other Windows Live services. No word yet from ...

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 ...

There's no denying that the frequency and impact of data breaches are on the rise. Every year the record for the number of individuals affected by a breach rises, with 2017 surpassing 2016 quickly.

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 ...