Because you don't have to hack a website to steal someone's identity. Here we have a clear example of legislators failing to grasp the issue and throwing it to the vendors with a message something along the lines of "You created this problem, you...
With people logging in and out without offering identities, it becomes virtually impossible for groups such as the RIAA to track down the identity of copyright infringers using these nodes. Wi-Fi access points don't, and that makes it difficult for...
IBM is also researching voice biometrics, technology to enable people to authenticate their identity through voice prints. Some of IBM's current research projects include free-form dialog support and expressive output, which allow a computer to...
The measure, called the Real ID Act, says that driver's licences and other ID cards must include a digital photograph, anti-counterfeiting features and undefined "machine-readable technology, with defined minimum data elements" that could include...
In fundamental terms, the company in the example has outsourced both its migration and its risk to a third party, which doesn't need to hack through the perimeter firewall because it is already inside and carrying all the necessary credentials to...
In recent months, Apple has resorted to draconian tactics to deal with iPhone owners who hack their phones to run on other networks. Or something along those lines. Even last year's overall winner, chief software architect Ray Ozzie, drops out of...