January 27, 2017 — What Are The Big Advantages of Behavioral Biometrics? Authentication based on behavioral biometrics is easier and safer, argues NuData Security. In a new blog post, the company makes the case that behavioral biometrics is non-intrusive for subjects, and that the behavioral profiles it establishes for users are of no value to hackers. Physical biometrics, while offering useful identity data, could be vulnerable to hackers when stored on external servers, and once compromised, assures “a lifetime of risk
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We looked back at what happened in the backstage of fraud during the holiday season and found some eye-opening stats. Remember when we were all excited about the holidays, the friends and family gatherings, and the curling-up-under-the-blanket evenings? Now is time to look at the flip side of the coin: what did fraudsters do while we were opening presents or taking a well-deserved break, trying to snatch that 50% off Instapot or clearing out the driveway for sledding? They were …
A global tsunami of cyber fraud is hitting online businesses right now, and we’ll need new solutions to survive. In 2015, a Ponemon Cost of Cybercrime study found that cyber fraud as a whole cost global companies an average of $15.42 million per year, in the US this amounted to a 29% increase from the previous year. Juniper Research reported in May of this year that it expects cyber fraud to cost global businesses as a whole over $2 Trillion by 2019. The …