By Jodi Florence
Sorry both John and I have been missing in action for a few weeks. But on the bright side, the lack of blog posts of late means this one is jammed packed full of relevant identity news!
I’ll start by highlighting a blog post on identity verification from our partner Oracle. Brian Mozinski does [...]
One of the biggest misconceptions we are constantly addressing is the confusion between shared secret questions and dynamic knowledge based authentication questions. And this week’s IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy isn’t helping to clear up the confusion since Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University are showing that the secret questions used to secure the [...]
On December 17, 2008 we submitted a supplemental Member Statement to the Internet Safety Technical Task Force’s Final Report. The report was delivered to the Attorneys General on December 23 and made public today. The final report was not a consensus document and the Member Statements served as an avenue for us to state our [...]
The news about Governor Palin’s Yahoo account being hacked presents an interesting use-case for a dynamic KBA solution and gives me the opportunity to clear up a big misunderstanding people have about what [IDology's] KBA really is.
First, let’s examine how the hacker accessed her email. According to this Wired article:
As detailed in the postings, [...]
If you recall I blogged about the government’s crackdown on employers hiring illegal immigrants and how identity theft and the fake document industry is booming in some places as a result. Today’s Wall Street Journal article, How To Make Identity Theft Worse, IRS Audit Launches Emerita de Jesus into Fight To Get Her Name [...]
I mentioned in an earlier post that I was at the Burton Catalyst Conference last week. For those of you that didn’t make it, this blog post by Mark Dixon is a great recap of some of the identity related sessions.
I got the early edition of Cybersource’s 9th annual fraud report today. I haven’t had time to fully absorb/read all of the information but there were some facts that jumped out at me:
82% of merchants are manually checking orders today with 1 out of 3 orders being manually reviewed. Merchants also indicated that over [...]
Digital ID World (DIDW) is next week in San Francisco and I’m really anxious to attend since I was unable to get there last year (gasp!). Different from the RSA show which is focused on security (with identity being a subset), this conference is completely centered on everything identity – from Identity Management (IdM) [...]
It’s here! Our whitepaper pointing out the top 10 common misconceptions businesses have about identity proofing. Here’s a sneak peak.
If you are sitting on the fence wondering about the effectiveness of id verification technologies, then this really is a must read. I’m sure your concerns will be covered since these are the most [...]
PC World wrote a more in-depth article last week regarding the Facebook news I blogged about here. I was particularly pleased to see this from Chris Kelly in the article:
“It is better to have some sort of verification on the front end and various forms of behavioral verification on the back end,” Kelly said of [...]
