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Shmoocon 2020 - Josh Kamdjou's 'Voight-Kampff for Email Addresses: Quantifying Email Address Reputation To Identify Spear-Phishing And Fraud' →

March 29, 2020 by Marc Handelman in Conferences, Shmoocon 2020, Education, Information Security, Identity, Email Security

Thanks to 0xdade for publishing these outstanding Shmoocon 2020 Convention videos via the 0xdade YouTube channel and the 0xdade Shmoocon 2020 Playlist for everyone to view, learn and, of course, enjoy.

March 29, 2020 /Marc Handelman
Conferences, Shmoocon 2020, Education, Information Security, Identity, Email Security

USENIX Enigma 2019, Tejas Dharamshi's 'Building Identity For An Open Perimeter' →

September 13, 2019 by Marc Handelman in USENIX Enigma 2019, Identity, Identity Cloud Services, Identity Management, Information Security, Education, Conferences

Thanks to USENIX for publishing the USENIX Enigma 2019

outstanding conference videos on their YouTube Channel

September 13, 2019 /Marc Handelman
USENIX Enigma 2019, Identity, Identity Cloud Services, Identity Management, Information Security, Education, Conferences

Right Hand Doesn't Know What The Others Done, The Danish Passport Fiasco

April 30, 2019 by Marc Handelman in Biometrics, Biometric Data Abuse, Identity, Identity Management, Incompetence, Information Security

Lawrence Abrams - writing at Bleeping Computer - regales us with the (unfortunately true) tale of nearly two hundred and thirty thousand Danish passports possess invalid finger print data (the hands are 'swapped', as it were).

April 30, 2019 /Marc Handelman
Biometrics, Biometric Data Abuse, Identity, Identity Management, Incompetence, Information Security

Meet The Big Brother Of India (And Potentially - Others)

January 06, 2019 by Marc Handelman in Government, Identity, Identity Management, Government Incompetence, Governmental Corruption

via Nikhil Pahwa, reporting for Wired UK, comes a glimpse into an Indian version of Big Brother, in this case, a database monikered Aadhaar, in which is contained the apparently problematically managed biometric identity data of over 1.2 Billion Indian Citizens. I fear for the freedom of the justly proud and wonderful people of India with the existence of this system. Nice logo though, eh?

"The Aadhaar number is a 12 digit identity code, based on a person's biometric and demographic information, that has been made mandatory for a large number of government welfare and private services in India: at present you need one to open a bank account, get a mobile phone, pay taxes, or even get an ambulance. It is the largest biometric identity project in the world and has enrolled more than 1.22 billion people. Russia, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia are interested in adopting similar systems." - via Nikhil Pahwa, reporting for Wired UK

January 06, 2019 /Marc Handelman
Government, Identity, Identity Management, Government Incompetence, Governmental Corruption

WSJ, Facial Recognition →

December 22, 2018 by Marc Handelman in Identity, Information Security, Facial Recognition
December 22, 2018 /Marc Handelman
Identity, Information Security, Facial Recognition

My Thoughts, Exactly

October 29, 2018 by Marc Handelman in Stuff of Genius, Information Security, Identity

via the superb research efforts by Wenyao Xu, PhD , Feng Lin PhD and Zhanpeng Jin PhD - all Professors of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, comes a story of both exacting scientific method and incredible rigor, in which, the future of passwords may very well be revealed. Read it and weep for our advesaries.

October 29, 2018 /Marc Handelman
Stuff of Genius, Information Security, Identity

Synthetics →

March 08, 2018 by Marc Handelman in Synthetic Identites, Identity Theft, Identity Management, Identity, Crime, Criminal Enterprise

via Peter Rudegeair and AnnaMaria Andriotis - writing at The Wall Street Journal - comes a good example of crime reportage, regaling us with an exposé of pernicious criminality within the Identity Theft arena: The utilization of Synthetic Identities leveraged to abscond with fungible assets... In this case, to the tune of billions of dollars. While not new - as the article erroneously claims in both it's title and body copy - the use of synthetic identities targeting our children's identities and unused Social Security Numbers has been an ever-increasing fraud modality for a number of years. Today's Must Read.

March 08, 2018 /Marc Handelman
Synthetic Identites, Identity Theft, Identity Management, Identity, Crime, Criminal Enterprise

DerbyCon 2017, Beau Bullock, Brian Fehrman and Derek Banks' 'CredDefense Toolkit' →

December 16, 2017 by Marc Handelman in Conferences, DerbyCon, Identity Management, Identity, Information Security
December 16, 2017 /Marc Handelman
Conferences, DerbyCon, Identity Management, Identity, Information Security

Rolta AdvizeX, Sam Cattle's 'Identity: The New Perimeter' →

October 02, 2017 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, Identity Management, Identity, Information Security

Today's MustRead Information Security post and video is also deemed a MustWatch as well. Sam Cattle (National Security Practice Director, Technology Solutions) at Rolta AdvizeX details the particulars of Identity, and names such the New Perimeter. Very Nice.

October 02, 2017 /Marc Handelman
All is Information, Identity Management, Identity, Information Security

Photos of a person in disguise — wearing glasses, a head covering, and scarf — with the points of the face detected by a new artificial intelligence face recognition system noted in the center and rightmost image of this photograph. | Image Credit: Amarjot Singh, et al.

Trouble Ahead: AI Identifies Humans →

September 13, 2017 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, Identity, Artificial Intelligence

With a paucity of data, I might add...

September 13, 2017 /Marc Handelman
All is Information, Identity, Artificial Intelligence