Articles Tagged with ''passwords''

A study of 17 major banks by the University of New Haven Cyber Forensic Research and Education Group shows that six of them have weak password handling and that their password procedures are weaker than most social websites.

Password management company SplashData released its annual round-up of the worst passwords of 2015.
 

Nearly half of parents keep tabs on at least one of their kid’s social media passwords and email accounts, according to a new survey.
 

An independent survey of online shopping trends found that 90 percent of participants think that passwords provide little or no security, yet they are still the main way people access their accounts.

Deutsche Bank is considering scrapping traditional passwords in favor of thumbprint technology, facial recognition, and smart tech that knows how you hold a phone.
 

Capital One is offering customers the chance to replace security questions for some transactions with a swipe of their mobile phones.

Intercede released the findings of consumer research that suggests Millennials in the U.S. and U.K. have almost entirely lost trust in government and business to protect their personal information online.

Mastercard is rolling out a biometrics payments service that will kill passwords within five years.

A study by Dell examines enterprise security's impact on productivity including the mobile workforce and passwords. 

A recent survey found that password-based authentication is no longer capable of meeting the demands of modern information security, and that 84% of respondents would support eliminating passwords all together.