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On Risk-Based Authentication

Schneier on Security

A Study on Usability and Security Perceptions of Risk-based Authentication “: Abstract : Risk-based Authentication (RBA) is an adaptive security measure to strengthen password-based authentication. Paper’s website. I’ve blogged about risk-based authentication before.

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No more chasing paper trails – capture all your financial fax with digital precision

OpenText Information Management

As paper-based processes give way to digital solutions, one area seeing remarkable change is digital fax and capture. Forget the outdated image of clunky fax machines—today’s digital fax and capture offer a sleek, efficient, and secure way to manage information in the modern financial world.

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SHARED INTEL: IT pros gravitate to ‘passwordless’ authentication to improve security, boost agility

The Last Watchdog

Passwordless authentication as a default parameter can’t arrive too soon. That’s the upshot of a new report, The State of Passwordless Security 2021 , put out by HYPR , a New York City-based supplier of advanced authentication systems. Threat actors now routinely bypass these second-layer security gates.

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A Threat to Passkeys? BrutePrint Attack Bypasses Fingerprint Authentication

eSecurity Planet

Security researchers recently published a paper detailing an attack they say can be used to bypass smartphone fingerprint authentication. Yiling He of China’s Zhejiang University and Yu Chen of Tencent Security’s Xuanwu Lab are calling the attack BrutePrint , which they say can be used to hijack fingerprint images.

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The Security Vulnerabilities of Message Interoperability

Schneier on Security

Jenny Blessing and Ross Anderson have evaluated the security of systems designed to allow the various Internet messaging platforms to interoperate with each other: The Digital Markets Act ruled that users on different platforms should be able to exchange messages with each other. In our latest paper, One Protocol to Rule Them All?

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Security Analysis of Threema

Schneier on Security

A group of Swiss researchers have published an impressive security analysis of Threema. As one example, we present a cross-protocol attack which breaks authentication in Threema and which exploits the lack of proper key separation between different sub-protocols. It also said the researchers were overselling their findings.

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RADIUS Vulnerability

Schneier on Security

New attack against the RADIUS authentication protocol: The Blast-RADIUS attack allows a man-in-the-middle attacker between the RADIUS client and server to forge a valid protocol accept message in response to a failed authentication request. Research paper. The attacker does not learn user credentials. News article.