Indian Consulate in Dubai Warns Workers Over Biometric Scans Taken by Agents
Agents offering Indian workers in the United Arab Emirates help with visa and document paperwork are collecting their face, eye and fingerprint scans, then…
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CrowdStrike Wires CLEAR Identity Checks Into Falcon Threat Detection
CrowdStrike and CLEAR have partnered to put person-based identity verification inside CrowdStrike’s Falcon security platform, so that a risk detection can…
Islamabad High Court Presses Pakistani Regulators on Under-16 Age Verification
The Islamabad High Court has given four federal ministries and two regulators 15 days to respond to a petition seeking an age-verification mechanism for social…
AI Update: Rogue Agents’ Secret Message Board
AI Update August 28, 2026 Security and identity briefing OpenAI explained how its agents breached Hugging Face, researchers disclosed new attacks against Grok…
Researchers Detail an Android Toolkit That Feeds Fake Video Into Live KYC Checks
Cybernews researchers have published findings on an Android toolkit built to defeat live identity checks by feeding saved photographs, prerecorded video or a…
DNP Clears Acceptance Threshold in AUSTRIACARD Takeover, Awaiting Austrian Clearance
Shareholders have tendered 96.55 percent of AUSTRIACARD HOLDINGS AG shares in Dai Nippon Printing’s public takeover offer, comfortably clearing the 75 percent…
Missouri Age Verification Law Takes Effect, Codifying an Attorney General Rule
A Missouri law requiring adult content websites to confirm that users are at least 18 took effect today, putting into statute the age-verification rule…
Roblox Agrees to Integrate the Philippine National ID Into Its Age Checks
Roblox has agreed to integrate the Philippine Identification System into its age and identity verification for users in the country, according to the…
ScotAccount Adds Passport Verification Against HM Passport Office Records
The Scottish Government has added HM Passport Office verification to ScotAccount, its single sign-in digital identity service, giving users a route to prove…
Socure Takes Growth Investment at $5.2B Valuation and Buys Agentic Fraud Platform Fravity
Socure has taken a strategic growth investment that values the identity verification company at $5.2 billion, and has acquired Fravity, a platform that…