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MicroStrategy, the leading corporate holder of Bitcoin, has revealed plans to launch a decentralized identity solution on the Bitcoin network. The marks a significant move towards leveraging Bitcoin blockchain beyond traditional financial applications. During the MicroStrategy World conference in Las Vegas on May 1, Michael Saylor, the co-founder and Executive Chairman of the firm, introduced MicroStrategy Orange, a decentralized identity protocol. This…

Casino Breaches Expose Why Identity Management Is at a Crossroads By now, many have heard about the massive cyberattacks that affected casino giants MGM Resorts and Caesars, leaving everything from room keys to slot machines on the fritz.

Photo illustration by Natalie Matthews-Ramo/Slate. Photo by Utkarxh Rathore/Unsplash. One day, B.J. Mendelson was playing Roblox with his school-aged nieces when suddenly, he heard a stranger’s voi…

There are more and more remote workers in the modern age. Companies are realizing how effective it can be to have their staff based at home and opening up the possibilities of employing people with…

In an era dominated by constant information and the desire to be social, should the tone of thinking for students be different?After all, this is the world of Google. In this world full of informat…

One month into a brutal war, Ukraine’s children are traumatized and in desperate need of assistance. UNICEF is on the ground in Ukraine and neighboring countries, working to provide lifesavin…

Fraud is a growing issue for fintech companies, as bad actors are doing everything from stealing identities to exploiting the slow U.S. bank-to-bank transfer network to siphon off money. The proble…

Russian mobsters, Chinese hackers and Nigerian scammers have used stolen identities to plunder tens of billions of dollars in pandemic aid, officials say. From a report: In June, the FBI got a warr…

What’s the impact on digital fraud as countries ease COVID-19 lockdown restrictions? We recently analyzed billions of transactions in our flagship identity proofing, risk-based authentication and fraud analytics solution suite — TransUnion TruValidate™ — and found the rate of suspected digital fraud attempts across industries rose 16.5% globally when comparing Q2 2020 and Q2 2021.1 In the US,…

The Trends in Security Digital Identities report from the Identity Defined Security Alliance (IDSA) … [+]getty Identity is at the core of cybersecurity. Digital identities, such as usernames …

Deep fake or deepfake technology as AI or artificial intelligence as a biometrics fake visual… [+] Getty Facial recognition software has become increasingly popular in the past several years.…

An estimated nine million Americans have their identities stolen each year. Identity thieves may drain accounts, damage credit, and even put medical treatment at risk. The cost to business — left w…

1. Let’s go back in time. What piqued your interest in cybersecurity in the first place? While working for the government, Wilson saw how criminal activity (such as financial crime) often involved …

The Internal Revenue Service entered this tax filing season severely backlogged and shorthanded—the result of decades of underfunding exacerbated by Covid-19 related strains. As of early last month…

When Robyn Mathis, a 41-year-old food production plant worker from Brunswick, Georgia, stepped off a flight to Philadelphia last June, she expected an easy passage to her destination. She was set t…

What’s the impact on digital fraud as countries ease COVID-19 lockdown restrictions? We recently analyzed billions of transactions in our flagship identity proofing, risk-based authentication and f…