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At the Identity Week conference, the execs expressed confusion over the facial-recognition 'trust issue,' focusing on ways that the tech could help people spend more money at the gate.

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At Black Hat, however, Sean Cairncross left out many points that should be on attendees' minds.

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FIDO survey shows passkey adoption, especially as a primary login method, still trails awareness.

Cybercriminals are now impersonating legitimate businesses to hijack freight, steal high-value shipments, and reroute deliveries, causing a surge of what is called 'strategic cargo theft.'

Despite banning 'tens of thousands of accounts' and using 'industry-standard external vendors,' Digg said it couldn't stop bot activity on the platform.

The University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) took down its systems for testing 'to be sure they are safe to use' and transitioned to using pen and paper for documentation and patient orders.

The emails are part of a phishing campaign that potentially stems from a 2024 Instagram API leak. Instead, change your password directly from the IG app and consider enabling 2FA.

The vulnerabilities may have been exploited in 'an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals' using versions of iOS prior to iOS 26, as per Apple's security bulletin.

Sam Altman’s 'proof of human' World ID venture says it’s nearing 18 million verified users.

Bad actors need to know their actions have consequences, National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross says at a conference that also highlighted unease over the admin's actions to date.

Google researchers says 'mass amounts of customer data' were stolen in the operation. Harvard University and American Airlines-owned carrier Envoy were also impacted.

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Dashlane documents this in-house exercise to make more people (as in, potential corporate customers) aware of it. 'In practice, they’re not all doing it the right way,' its CTO tells us.

Most payments are less than $1 million, but 8% of successfully attacked US companies have paid a ransom four or more times, according to security firm Semperis.

Chinese workers are accompanied by US citizens functioning as 'digital escorts,' but the practice functions 'with little review,' according to a ProPublica investigation.