Jun

10

Look around you! Insider is close…

Category: Security, Security Threats | 1 Comment

Cyber-Ark’s security survey proved again that “Over a third of IT staff admit to abusing admin rights to snoop at confidential information”
They questioned over 400 IT staff in the US and the UK for its third annual ‘Trust, Security and Passwords’ survey.
What is really amazing: there is “six-fold increase on last year in the number of [...]

Jun

27

Faking a fingerprint (Part 2)

Category: Biometrics, How-to, Security | 5 Comments

In my previous post I have described the simple way of faking a finger for an optical fingerprint sensor.
The second experiment demonstrated the high identification capabilities of optical fingerprint capturing devices together with their absolute lack of discrimination of fake “fingers”.
During the study we managed to get the fingerprint image that was accepted by an [...]

Jun

25

Your password is not a secret

Category: How-to, Security Threats, passwords | Leave a Comment

5 terrifying facts about your passwords and 1 simple and free solution
Did you ever notice that someone opened your computer or entered your mailbox? Did you notice someone spying on you when typing a password or a PIN-code? Are you aware that your password was guessed?  Do you remove the Stick-it note when you [...]