authentication

appMobi is introducing cloudKey authentication solution and its immediate integration into appMobi’s 1Touch “single touch” payment system. A combination of 1Touch and cloudKey provides a secure and streamlined e-commerce experience, says the company statement.

A provider of image based authentication and verification solutions Confident Technologies Inc announced a new product Confident Multifactor Authentication. The solution represents a two-factor authentication that delivers an image-based authentication challenge to users' mobile phones for a more secure out-of-band authentication process.

Facebook tries another out of its mad experiments about security. Now instead of typical Captcha that help indentify that a user who is logging in is not a bot Facebook asks its members to identify their friends based on their profile pictures.

Facebook activates this so-called “social authentication” when it suspects malicious activity such as logging from different parts of the world in a period of a couple hours. During this authentication process a user will have to identify a few friends through multiple-choice questions to access your account.

National Australia Bank (NAB) is projecting the replacement of SMS pass codes with biometric voice verification to heighten the level of security of its mobile banking customers, according to CIO Magazine, New Zealand.
NAB presented voice biometrics for its telephone banking customers over the summer. Users calling the bank's contact centre can register their voice pattern, which NAB says is harder to steal than a password or PIN, to use as authentication.

The EU's 'cyber security' Agency, ENISA (the European Network and Information Security Agency) today releases its new Position Paper. The paper is focusing on authentication risks with European eID Cards. It analyses 7 vulnerabilities, identifies 15 threats and gives security recommendations.