Reports are surfacing that private details, including email addresses, account passwords and IP addresses, of 2.5 million PlayStation and Xbox users have been leaked in a major data breach. The hack breached forums 'XBOX360 ISO' and 'PSP ISO' in 2015, but details of the leak are only just coming to light now.
According to scientists from Binghamton University in New York, everyone has a unique heartbeat and that can be used for encrypting and decrypting personal data.
Commenting on this, Robert Capps, VP of business development at NuData Security, said: "As more business moves online, it's gravely important for us to look for new and stronger methods to positively identify consumers, online. The use of bioinformatics for online human identification (such as heart rate, or body temperature, oxygen saturation, etc.) is a promising area of study, that would provide a unique way of strongly identifying individuals while reducing the opportunities for online criminals to impersonate a legitimate user.
We’ve all heard the famous saying, “we all make mistakes”. This is an especially pertinent statement for the business IT industry, where 65 per cent of businesses attribute most of their data quality issues to human error.
London: IBM’s global communications industry leader Rob van den Dam will be speaking at the European VoIP Summit scheduled to run on the 9th March at the QEII Centre in London, Vigilance can report.
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