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Report: PayPal investigates internal authentication
San Jose, Calif. – Nothing is more personal than the inside of your body, and that is where PayPal reportedly envisions the next frontier of biometric user authentication. According to the Wall Street Journal, PayPal is investigating the feasibility of embeddable, injectable, and ingestible devices to identify users for mobile and online transactions.
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9 things retailers need to know about data breaches
Verizon is out with its annual cyber security report and while the findings are disturbing the good news is that retailers can thwart many a breach attempt by focusing on a handful of basic attack patterns.
Verizon's "2015 Data Breach Investigations Report," reveals that cyberattacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated, but many criminals still rely on decades-old techniques such as phishing and hacking. In fact, 70% of cyberattacks use a combination of these techniques and involve a secondary victim which adds complexity to a breach, according to the report.
