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AI Security

The Longitude Problem: Why Ground Truth Beats Guesswork in the AI Age

For centuries, sailors died because they could estimate their position but not confirm it. Attackers targeting your company today face the same gap, and your best defence is the same one that finally solved navigation.

4 min read
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Breaches

IDScan admits break-in after 153 million driver's license scans surface on dark web

The identity verification firm says an unauthorised party may have copied customer records from its cloud, days after a criminal marketplace advertised access to a huge trove of scanned IDs traced back to the company.

4 min read
A corporate network access point with multi-factor authentication confirmation displayed on screen, showing successful login while simultaneously an attacker ga
Identity & Access

Passing the Login Test Does Not Mean You Let In the Right Person

Multi-factor authentication is a genuine security win, but organisations that mistake 'logged in successfully' for 'identity confirmed' are handing attackers a very comfortable seat at the table.

3 min read
A corporate HR office setup with an employee onboarding desk displaying new hire forms and identity verification documents, with a computer screen showing a pas
Identity & Access

Attackers Are Skipping the Login and Going After the Hiring Desk

Criminals have figured out that faking a new hire or a password reset is easier than cracking a password. Identity verification is now the soft spot.

4 min read
An office workspace transformed from paper-based to digital: one desk piled with birth certificate stacks, adjacent desk showing facial recognition and age veri
Identity & Access

USA Fencing's Identity Problem: How a Sports Body Stopped Checking Kids' Ages by Hand

With more than 50,000 members ranging from age eight to eighty, USA Fencing was drowning in paper birth certificates. Here's how it automated the problem away, and why the data questions around children are still worth watching.

4 min read
A SIM card slot on a smartphone with a replacement SIM being inserted, overlaid with digital identity verification screens and account access confirmations in t
Identity & Access

A Stolen Phone Number Nearly Took Over Someone's Entire Digital Life

A real-world SIM swap attack shows how quickly identity checks break down once a criminal gets hold of your phone number.

3 min read
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AI Security

You Probably Can't Spot an AI Fake Face. Researchers Think They Can Teach You

A team of scientists across three countries is testing whether ordinary people can be trained to tell real faces from AI-generated impostors. The early results are cautiously encouraging.

3 min read
Illustration: an empty modern IT help desk workstation at night
Identity & Access

When the Help Desk Becomes the Front Door: AI-Assisted Social Engineering Hits Onboarding

IBM's 2025 breach data puts AI-assisted attacks at 16% of cases studied. A growing share of those start with a phone call to the service desk, and new-hire onboarding is where defences are thinnest.

4 min read
Illustration: a generic smartphone held in shadowed hands against a deep blue background
Identity & Access

UK's Under-16 Social Media Ban Turns Every Signup Into an Identity Checkpoint

Spring 2027 rules will force ID uploads or face scans at account creation. The IAM bill comes due, and so does the breach surface.

3 min read
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