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Data Blizzard Hits LA Schools: Students data stolen in Snowflake Hack

VISTA InfoSec

The breach, linked to a hack of the district’s Snowflake account, has exposed sensitive data pertaining to students and employees enrolled in the sprawling district. Snowflake is a cloud database platform used by companies worldwide to store their data.

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Mastercard Goes OTP-Free in APAC for Faster, Safer Online Transactions

Fintech Finance

As payments become more intricate, Mastercard today announced the latest enhancement to its new Mastercard Payment Passkey Service which enables secure, on-device biometric authentication through facial scans or fingerprints, the same way consumers unlock their phones every day.

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Fighting Fraud: How Biometrics Enhance Identity Authentication

FICO

As consumers, most of us still consider facial recognition the current state of the art for authentication. Here’s why it matters: Authentication is used for a lot more than unlocking your phone. To better protect these transactions from fraud, new biometric measures can now authenticate that it’s really you who’s using your phone.

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What is Adaptive Identity Authentication?

FICO

Adaptive identity authentication is the process of tailoring each customer authentication to the specifics of the request. It involves calibrating multiple sets of risk indicators to determine the type of authentication needed, and how strong to make it. Adaptive identity authentication is increasingly important.

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Why Citi Is Using Biometrics To Build Its ‘Security Perimeter’

PYMNTS

From company board rooms to airport boarding gates, the need for seamless authentication is putting biometrics front and center in varying use cases. With that shift, older authentication tools, such as physical tokens, are seeing a decline in use. Meanwhile, in Thailand, KBank is embracing biometrics for new customer enrollments.

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Guarding the Gates: Data Compliance and Privacy

Segpay

The Intersection of Data Privacy and Identity Management Source: ID Management Institute Identity management helps authenticate users and makes sure that only authorized individuals can access certain information. In identity management, this means gathering only what is strictly needed for authentication.

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Inside The Fight For Digital Driver’s Licenses

PYMNTS

A recent study from Visa found that two-thirds of surveyed consumers preferred biometric authentication to passwords for a variety of reasons when using their cards. The bank plans to enroll all 3.7 Banks are working on new biometric security solutions in response to this trend in customer preference.