- Privacy What Happens After You've Set Up Google Inactive Account Manager?
Google's Inactive Account Manager notifies designated contacts after 3+ months of account inactivity, optionally sharing data with them. Google sends multiple alerts before expiration and requires...
- Social Networking What Anomalies Trigger The LinkedIn Sign-In Verification Challenge?
LinkedIn presents security challenges when detecting logins from unfamiliar locations, new countries, extended absences, or suspicious activity patterns. The verification process involves email links...
- Authentication Continuous and Seamless User Authentication with Biometrics
Continuous authentication can verify user identity beyond initial login by monitoring behavioral and physiological biometrics—face recognition, walking patterns, voice, and interaction...
- Authentication Creative Options for Better Authentication of Mobile Phone Users
Mobile phone authentication can move beyond awkward passwords and PINs by leveraging built-in sensors for fingerprints, walking patterns, facial geometry, voice, thermal imaging, and grip...
- Risk Management The Risks of Remote Desktop for Access Over the Internet
Exposing RDP to direct Internet connections is risky—beyond credential-guessing opportunities, critical vulnerabilities like CVE-2012-0002 can allow remote code execution without authentication....
- Authentication Anticipating The Future of User Account Access Sharing
Roughly one in three teens share passwords as expressions of trust, much like giving out school locker combinations. Adults also share credentials for practical reasons—Netflix accounts, admin...