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08/07/2009

Mobilegov is now OATH contributing-member

Mobilegov takes part in OATH, a collaborative effort of IT industry leaders aimed at providing a reference architecture for universal strong authentication across all users and all devices over all networks.
 
 
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27/04/2009

Facebook announces users will soon be able to login to Facebook via OpenID

Less than three months after joining the OpenID Foundation’s board as a sustaining corporate member (i.e. putting its weight and financial support behind OpenID), Facebook has just announced at the “technology tasting” event this afternoon at its Palo Alto headquarters that users will soon be able to log in to Facebook with their OpenID.
 
 
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02/04/2009

Biometric hack tool released

A British security researcher has demonstrated a "biologging" system for intercepting biometric authentication data, warning that attacks on biometric systems could become relatively straightforward if current practices don't change Matthew Lewis, of London-based Information Risk Management, demonstrated a proof-of-concept biologger last we at Black Hat Amsterdam and released the tool's source code.
 
 
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12/12/2008

Jobless techies turning to crime

Impoverished techies and IT workers who have been made redundant will go rogue in 2009, selling corporate data and using crimeware, reports predict.
 
 
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09/12/2008

License plates may be coming to cyberspace

A government and technology industry panel on cyber-security is recommending that the federal government end its reliance on passwords and enforce what the industry describes as “strong authentication.”
Such an approach would probably mean that all government computer users would have to hold a device to gain access to a network computer or online service. The commission is also encouraging all nongovernmental commercial services use such a device.
 
 
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21/11/2008

Data lost by Revenue and Customs

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has lost computer disks containing confidential details of 25 million child benefit recipients.
The organisation says it does not believe the records - names, addresses, dates of birth and bank accounts - have fallen into the wrong hands. This is not the first time it has lost sensitive information.
 
 
20/11/2008

US Department of defense bans USB drives after worm attack

Malware outbreak triggers removable lockdown for US military
 
 
 
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