Biometrics continues to gain people’s trust when it comes to securing cyber credentials and authenticating access requests. It can already be considered as the new universal standard of security and privacy. To beef things up, authentication provider SecureAuth has added a new realm of verification factor to its offering: behavioral biometrics.
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US district court wants to break the anonymity of Tor users
The United States government wants to know the people who use Tor, and it has enlisted Carnegie Mellon University to do the job for it.
Cloud computing race heats up as Microsoft buys Xamarin
Xamarin, a provider of cloud computing services for software developers to build applications for mobile devices, has joined the fold of Microsoft in an acquisition move seen by many as meant to ramp up the race in the cloud among large tech companies.
What keeps Samsung Pay lagging behind Apple Pay
The fierce competition between Apple and Samsung continue, from the mobile race and beyond to the mobile payment race. The latter involves such service as Apple Pay, which was launched in conjunction with the latest flagships iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus.
What are Facebook Reactions really meant for?
If you have recently logged in to your Facebook account, you might have noticed a suite of new buttons in addition to Like that displays a variety of reactions or, more suitably, emotions. This might have come as a disappointment to many Facebook users who have anticipated a Dislike button instead.
Will Amazon’s cloud service succeed with major US banks?
Amazon is looking to the giant banking firms in the United States in a move to expand its cloud computing market by trying to convince such companies as J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup of great savings when they opt to pick Amazon’s servers for high-performance computing tasks rather than build their own storage platforms.
