Judge Clears Way for Breach Victims to Sue Yahoo (The Hill, Mar 12, 2018)
A federal judge ruled that individuals affected by the Yahoo data breaches can sue the company.

Judge Lucy Koh of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on Friday ruled against a motion from Verizon, which bought some of Yahoo's businesses, seeking to dismiss breach claims from users.
 

White House Says It's Blocking Broadcom bid for Rival Qualcomm (Politico, Mar 12, 2018)
President Donald Trump blocked Asian chip manufacturer Broadcom's hostile takeover bid for U.S. rival Qualcomm today, scuttling the deal over national security concerns about China.

The decision comes after a review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States determined the purchase by Singapore-based Broadcom could benefit Chinese competitors in the race to produce next-generation mobile technology and eliminate an important supplier of telecommunications technology to federal defense agencies.
 

How the Government’s Cyber Agency Rates on Cybersecurity (Nextgov, Mar 12, 2018)
The Homeland Security Department—the government’s point agency for cybersecurity—fell short of top marks in three of five areas in the annual information security assessment, according to a report released Monday.
 

eu-LISA Successfully Launches SIS II AFIS Phase One (euLISA, Mar 06, 2018)
After a little less than two years of intense efforts, the eu-LISA Internal Security Systems Sector successfully launched the first phase of the SIS II AFIS platform. The platform enables the identification of a person from his/her fingerprints alone. The introduction of a biometric search capability in SIS II was achieved by eu-LISA in tight cooperation with ten Member States who showed both interest and willingness to use biometric queries once deployed at the Central System level.
 

Spiceworks Study Reveals Nearly 90 Percent of Businesses Will Use Biometric Authentication Technology by 2020 (PR Newswire, Mar 12, 2018)
Spiceworks today announced the results of a new survey examining the adoption and security of biometric authentication technology in the workplace. The results show 62 percent of organizations currently use biometric authentication technology, and an additional 24 percent plan to utilize it within the next two years.
 

Penta Security to Launch Secure Biometrics-Enabled Cryptocurrency Wallet (Business Insider, Mar 12, 2018)
Penta Security, a Korean security provider specializing in web, IoT, and data security solutions and services, has announced a new line of cryptocurrency hardware wallets with enhanced security by way of secure key lifecycle, encryption, and authentication.
 

New Conductive Coating May Unlock Biometric and Wearable Technology of the Future (Texas A&M University, Mar 09, 2018)
A team of researchers from the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University have developed a mechanically robust conductive coating that can maintain performance under heavy stretching and bending.

Stretchable, bendable and foldable electronics are crucial for the development of emerging technologies like adaptive displays, artificial skin, and biometric and wearable devices.
 

VA study of wearables, AI shows promise for heart failure patients (HealthcareIT, Mar 12, 2018)
VA study of wearables, AI shows promise for heart failure patients A new study, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, applied wearable biosensors to post-acute heart failure patients and deployed FDA-cleared analytics from vendor physIQ to detect vital sign anomalies.
 

CapOne Uses Chatbots To Roll Out Virtual Account Numbers (PYMNTS.com, Mar 12, 2018)
Aiming to make online shopping safer, Capital One late last week rolled out the ability to shop with virtual card numbers via chatbot.

By tapping the chatbot to create the virtual card numbers to be used for online shopping, Capital One intends to give customers faster access to the numbers.

 

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