Biometric smartphones are expected to become mainstream this year as leading handset makers follow the lead of Apple into fingerprint recognition technology.
In 2014, McAfee Labs expects that Ransomware will proliferate on mobile devices, attacks using advanced evasion techniques will come of age, and social platforms will be used more aggressively to target the finances and personal information of consumers, and the intellectual property and trade secrets of business leaders.
While a hot topic in past years has been the use of the internet to help with employee selection through social media background checks, it appears that this trend is fading fast.
A new study from PayPal finds that a majority of Americans are comfortable with the idea of using their biometric information instead of the passwords that are currently the norm.
A study from an international online security firm has discovered that the most popular computer password for business men and women continues to be “Password” or some variation thereof.
While Americans are “very” seriously concerned about credit card and debit card fraud and identity theft, their overall security concern has decreased, says the most recent Unisys Security Index.
