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• The ATO now holds the voiceprints of one in seven Australians

  The Australian Taxation Office holds the voiceprint of one in seven Australians, according to figures released to Computerworld.

• Ex US Defense CIO: Spend cyber budget on people before tech

  The former chief information officer of the US Department of Defense has said an organisation’s cyber security budget is most effectively spent on educating staff, rather than technology.

• Commonwealth Bank adds Face ID functionality on iPhone X launch day

  ​Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has announced customers will be able to log-in to its app with Face ID, the facial recognition technology built into Apple’s new iPhone X.

• ATO to listen to voice biometrics

  The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has stated plans to turn on voice authentication to verify customer identities by the end of December at the latest.

• Biometrics eyed for secure future payments

  Biometrics look like the future of authentication for payments, according to payment experts at the Biometrics Institute Asia Pacific Conference in Sydney.

• ACCAN wants Google to rethink reCAPTCHA

  Google should provide an accessible alternative to reCAPTCHA, the company’s online test to prevent bots from posting spam to websites, said the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network.

• Australian Passport Offices to deepen use of facial recognition

  The Australian Passport Office (APO) seeks to expand its use of biometric technology, according a request for tender published today.

• Startup Nok Nok Labs pitches strong new authentication process

  Nok Nok Labs officially opened its doors today to introduce client/server-based technology proposed as an innovative foundation for flexible, strong multi-factor security that can be used in e-commerce, Web services or the enterprise.

• New FIDO Alliance pushing 'fast-identity' strong authentication protocol

  A new industry group called the Fast IDentity Online Alliance, or FIDO Alliance for short, makes its debut Tuesday to promote adoption in e-commerce and websites an innovative authentication protocol that's intended to bring a higher level of security for online users.

• PGP Corp. co-founder's startup targets cloud authentication

  When Phil Dunkelberger co-founded PGP Corp. in 2002 with Jon Callas, it was to acquire the codebase for the famous encryption technology known as "Pretty Good Privacy" which had been sold to Networks Associates in 1997. That proved a good move for public-key encryption, and now Dunkelberger says his next project -- the formation of a company called Nok Nok Labs -- involves a revolutionary way to support authentication in corporate networks and the cloud.

• New system secures cellphones for Web transactions

  An experimental method for two-factor authentication to websites employs mobile phones in a new way to ensure that users' online accounts don't get hijacked.

• MD5 password hashes are dead

  MD5 hashes, still a common method for securing login passwords, are no longer an adequate defence against hackers, according to Kaspersky Lab analyst Evgeny (Eugene) Aseev.

• 4 simple steps to bulletproof laptop security

  Security: You either have it you don't. It's a matter of degrees or, as the experts prefer to think of it, layers. The more varieties of security you have, the better the odds your goods can be protected successfully from intrusion or theft.

• EMC expects RSA breach to cost US$81.3 million

  EMC has squirrelled away US$81.3 million in reserve to cover the cost of customer remediation in response to the attack on RSA’s SecurID system it revealed in March.

• Tax Office releases AUSkey for Linux

  The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has made good on its promise to support Linux in its next-generation authentication software, dubbed AUSkey, with the reference distribution being Ubuntu with the Firefox Web browser.