SecureAuth has added behavioral biometrics to its adaptive authentication platform. So while already measuring multiple attributes about a user the system also know measure keystroke and mouse movements as well.

Sharing passwords is a necessity at some points but as a rule is nod advised. LastPass surveyed users on trends in sharing passwords. Some 95% of those surveyed admit to sharing six passwords with other people. Typically the sharing is with a spouse or significant other and child – 76% and 26% respectively.

Gemalto and Symbiont are working together to enable financial services organizations to securely execute smart contracts and other blockchain-based transactions; the GSA has tapped CertiPath’s TrustMonitor to ensure the health of its identity issuance systems and the health of the other participants in the federal trust fabric.

There are many ways to perform two-factor authentication and institutions want to make sure to vary the methods. By definition, with multi-factor authentication you have to present two of more dissimilar factors and typing in a password and then a text PIN is a know-know response basically using the same form of authentication twice.

There is no Internet driver license or passport and identifying individuals online is cumbersome. This could be starting to change though. A number of projects are making real strides to enable individuals to use documents they already have for high-assurance access, in essence using IDs already in the wallet as the DNA for future identity.

EveryKey, a device that can enable access to mobile devices, laptops and even a car or home, zoomed to 676% of its crowd funding target on IndieGogo earlier this month. The product also has a recognized name backing it, John McAfee, the guy who founded a wildly successful anti-virus company and is now running for U.S. president as a Libertarian Party candidate. McAfee is now EveryKey chief evangelist and talked with Re:ID’s Gina Jordan about the system.

The death of the password has been a long time coming but sadly the authentication mechanism lingers like the smell of weeks old Chinese food forgotten in the back of the refrigerator. Forrester Research is releasing a series of reports that will help security and risk professionals to compare employee password policies against a range of other organizations and assess emerging trends that enterprises are considering to reduce the cost of managing passwords.

Even with people continually being told they shouldn’t use weak passwords it’s still happening, according to SplashData and the 2015 edition of its annual “Worst Passwords List.” The news, however, isn’t entirely bad. In the fifth annual report, compiled from more than 2 million leaked passwords during the year, some new and longer passwords made their debut, which may be a sign that websites and consumers are attempting to be more secure.

Data breaches are rampant and multi-factor authentication is a necessity. By leveraging the mobile platform can enable strong authentication to be implemented in a user-friendly manner.

A study from UK’s Plymouth University finds that combining images with a one-time numerical code is an easy way to beat hackers. Researchers at the university’s Centre for Security Communication and Network Research created a system and wrote a paper about it: Secure Graphical One Time Password (GOTPass): An Empirical Study.