2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (578+ words) Singapore’s digital identity system Singpass has added passkey login to Android devices, the Government Technology Agency (GovTech) announced Wednesday. Android users will receive phased notifications via the Singpass app prompting them to create a passkey, provided they update to the…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (425+ words) France Titres has launched a new process that makes it easier for French nationals in French Polynesia, New Caledonia, and Wallis and Futuna to certify their France Identité digital identity. The new system allows users to update the app and…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (691+ words) Agentic AI is enabling cybercriminals to coordinate complex infrastructure systems to steal credentials. These tools can manage multiple stages of an operation and reduce the time attackers spend moving between discovery, exploitation, and collection. Google’s findings illustrate how AI is…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (285+ words) New Orleans-based ID verification provider IDScan.net has acknowledged the major breach of one of its databases, that exposed more than 170 million scanned identity documents, including 153 million driver’s licenses. IDScan, widely known for its VeriScan age and identity check software,…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (366+ words) Whether because of its age, its product focus or its relatively anemic branding, Microsoft has not caught much public scrutiny in debates over age assurance. Apple and Google, which make phones, run their operating systems and manage their app stores,…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (300+ words) A new patent granted to Seventh Sense AI by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) protects the company’s technology for binding face biometrics in a privacy-preserving way without storing a facial image, template or private keys in chat…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (430+ words) A massive trove of scanned identity documents has been discovered for sale on a Russian cybercrime forum, exposing the biometrics and personal information of more than 170 million people in North America – primarily U.S. driver’s licenses. Reported to KrebsOnSecurity, the identity…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (263+ words) European palm biometrics startup Handwave has announced an expanded agreement with global payments giant Visa. A release says the agreement integrates Visa’s tokenization and authentication technologies into Handwave’s model for safe, seamless card onboarding – and calls it “a key step…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (905+ words) Is this it? Could it actually be happening? Is the UK government actually now preparing to sign the amendment to the Mandatory Licensing Conditions, allowing people to use digital ID to prove their age when buying alcohol? The Age Check…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (434+ words) Since then, the promise of what is now called the DVS Trust Framework has been gradually restored, buoyed by announcements that changes to the mandatory licensing conditions to allow digital ID for proof of age when buying alcohol will require…...