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IRS To Ditch Biometric Requirement for Online Access

Krebs on Security

as a condition of receiving state or federal financial assistance, such as unemployment insurance, child tax credit payments, and pandemic assistance funds. In the face of COVID, dozens of states collectively lost tens of billions of dollars at the hands of identity thieves impersonating out-of-work Americans seeking unemployment insurance.

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IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access

Krebs on Security

was originally launched in 2010 with the goal of helping e-commerce sites validate the identities of customers who might be eligible for discounts at various retail establishments, such as veterans, teachers, students, nurses and first responders. prompts users to choose a multi-factor authentication (MFA) option. -based ID.me

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Oracle Critical Patch Update for January 2022 will fix 483 new flaws

Security Affairs

.” The CPU will address critical vulnerabilities in Oracle Essbase, Graph Server and Client, Secure Backup, Communications Applications, Communications, Construction and Engineering, Enterprise Manager, Financial Services Applications, Fusion Middleware, Insurance Applications, PeopleSoft, Support Tools, and Utilities Applications.

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Report Shows Major Security Holes in Banking Apps

Adam Levin

The analysis was conducted by the Aite Group, which looked at mobile apps in eight categories: retail banking, credit cards, mobile payment, healthcare savings, retail finance, health insurance, auto insurance and cryptocurrency.

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Catches of the Month: Phishing Scams for November 2022

IT Governance

Elsewhere, we assess data breaches at a cancer research facility and the US retailer Bed Bath & Beyond. Twitter’s verification chaos creates authentication conundrum. However, as Databreaches.net indicates, this is risky advice, because the attackers might yet use compromised medical insurance information to conduct identity theft.

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Aruba ClearPass Policy Manager NAC Solution Review

eSecurity Planet

Applicable Metrics Aruba ClearPass is deployed in high-volume authentication environments (e.g. 10+ million authentications a day) as well as distributed environments requiring local authentication survivability across multiple geographies (e.g. 30 points of presence).

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2024 Thales Global Data Threat Report: Trends in Financial Services

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

A lack of multifactor authentication (MFA) to protect privileged accounts was another culprit, at 10%, also 7 percentage points lower than average. Among FinServ organizations, 73% have adopted multifactor authentication (MFA) to secure cloud data access, nearly matching the overall average of 74%.