NEWS
CloudStore economises some public funds
The G-Cloud could be a powerful tool for government bodies, impacting finances and efficiency as they locate and select IT providers. Keeping information in the cloud instead of on clunky hardware devices just makes sense. Going through a marketplace in which vendors...
Don’t gamble with semi-secure authentication
While identity theft is no joke, we can’t help but notice that the recent Paddy Power breach struck online gamblers. Nearly 650,000 user credentials were stolen, and according to statistics, many of those credentials will also work for those users’ bank accounts and...
Tricerion celebrates its 10 year ‘NO BREACH’ anniversary of SafeLogin
Since its inception in 2004, Tricerion’s patented single-use picture password log-in software solution has never been breached and has successfully eradicated Phishing, Pharming, Trojans, Spyware and Key Logging attacks for its clients and current 500,000+ live users....
Zero Footprint
‘How not to get hacked at the World Cup’ A report by Moscow-based cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab found many of the tech amenities being offered in Brazil to be fraught with danger. Unlike some other systems, SafeLogin doesn’t rely on machine authentication or...
End Phishing today
'I had to change my passwords last week and the week before that, when is this going to end?' - "This is the new normal," warned the FBI - BBC News 03 June 2014 - ‘Two-Week Attack’ Since we created SafeLogin in 2004 our system has never been breached by any of...
Works on any device
‘The PC is dead’ - Cisco Report June 2014 Daily Mail 10 June 2014 As an increasing amount of business and social activity takes place online, safeguarding against identity theft has become a top priority for organisations and their online users alike and so we...
No Tokens
‘The Tricerion solution provides us with an enhanced strong authentication experience that is visible and reassuring, with great usability and easy acceptance by our members’ B. John Shipe - Chief Information Officer, Alaska USA Federal Credit Union SafeLogin...
Expand your digital services
'NHS England is to scrap its £356m Choose and Book outpatient appointment booking system' ComputerWeely - 12 May 2014 Tricerion understands that in todays digital age, each organisation, public or private, has to deal with the challenge of securing their online...
Very user-friendly
'It certainly appears that SafeLogin is potentially accessible to all and therefore it should be considered by anyone wishing to improve the security of their system' Peter Abrahams, Practice Leader - Accessibility & Usability, Bloor Research SafeLogin...
There is a price on your head (and there is no place to hide)
If cyber crime in 1990s was the Wild West and you had to ride the mail coach to be noticed and targeted by for criminals, modern cyber attacks look more like nuclear bomb blasts. Criminals go for massive data breaches because a phishing attack is a numbers game. The...
Famous Passwords
Seeing is Believing – the science of mutual authentication and phishing prevention
It is obvious that humans learn by engaging all of our five senses. Our brain processes our experience and stores memories acquired through different sensory channels. We start learning the Alphabet Song long before we are able to know what each letter looks...
Infographic: Top Five Lines in Phishing Emails
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Don’t be on the menu at the phish market
Authentication is more like sushi than vintage art. It's best when it's fresh, and aging it only decreases the value. Vintage art appreciates in value over time, but security credentials are perishable products. You may be attached to your username/password because...
Infographic: Top 10 Countries Hosting Phishing URLs
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Fresh Coffee is Good – Stale Passwords are Bad
How creative are you when it comes to ordering a drink at Starbucks? Apparently, you are just as likely to keep ordering the same beverage as you are to use the same password for multiple websites. In an article in Computerworld Evan Schuman notes the security...
The History of Password (In)security
The irony of traditional login mechanisms is that they keep building perceived layers of security by making text-based passwords longer and adding security words to supplement the master password, asking for secrets that only you may know, while these secrets are...
Mutual Trust is Mission-Critical
Phishing is a confidence problem. Last year the Royal Bank of Scotland paid out $285.7 million to their customers who experienced a service outage due to distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. In early December the bank was hit again with a similar attack. ...
When the Cloud Gets Dark – It Should Not Rain Down on the Users
We are used to going through airport security checkpoints and having to present a photo ID. The bank gives us cash if we can prove that we are who we say we are. But there is no need to show your passport to get through the front door of your own house. Your loving...
Strong Authentication – security in spite of barometer readings
Imagine a world where your password works most of the time, say, when it’s sunny outside. But then if there is rain or snow, it stop working. Or how about adding a political aspect to your online security. If there is a political crisis, or another country is about...
A system to die for
Innovation is awesome. Everyday new companies tackle old problems with creative solutions. Sometimes some of them are silly. A startup in Toronto wants to use a real-time, continuous electrocardiogram (ECG) as biometric authorization by using a bracelet with heartbeat...