As companies increase their cybersecurity defenses, fraudsters are now targeting call centers with easily obtained and plentiful personally identifying information and they are sharing it too.

Research from Goode Intelligence sets out the qualitative and quantitative basis for the return on investment from the use of biometric authentication.

For the first time in recent years, credit card fraud -- which remains the highest fraud type for online retailers -- has dropped from 59 percent of total fraud found in the 2016 holiday week to 42 percent of total fraud found in 2017 the holiday week.

eBay is developing a new authentication program for some of its higher-end items to create a network of professional authenticators it can use to verify that products are legitimate.

From baby boomers to millennials, 52 percent of consumers would choose anything but a traditional username and password account registration when given the option.

This wristband features an embedded electrocardiogram (ECG) sensor to use your unique heartbeat to unlock your identity.

As enterprises grow, so does the number of system credentials, leaving users to reuse passwords across multiple accounts.

We’ve come a long way from a musician, John Wiegand, working for Echlin Mfg. Corp., an auto parts firm, and his twisted wire invention that still holds a big but diminishing influence in identity and physical security.

 How many passwords do you have? The average consumer has 35. The problem when you get that number is remembering them, duplicating them or losing them. That’s where the FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) Alliance comes in.