Bank of Sharjah has begun using facial authentication from Emirates Face Recognition (EFR) to approve customer fund transfers, and plans to extend the technology to account opening and other digital […]

SecuGen’s Unity 20 FIDO2 fingerprint security key has gained FIDO Alliance certification, adding a biometric hardware authenticator to the company’s product range. The device creates and stores passkeys for passwordless […]

This week’s AI Update covers a €95 million voice-cloning scam, government-site hacking attempts, model extraction claims, biometric privacy and agent payments.

Anvil Secure has published a passkey security-testing whitepaper with a 43-case reference for assessing deployed authentication systems, covering the components around a passkey sign-in as well as the underlying protocols. […]

Mastercard is testing a transaction-intelligence service in the United States that estimates whether a payment was initiated by an artificial-intelligence agent, as it expands the trust framework supporting its Agent […]

The UK’s Office for Digital Identities and Attributes, known as OfDIA, is inviting digital-verification providers to test the onboarding process for a machine-readable register that will let services check one […]

GMO Internet has added passkey sign-in to Onamae.com, its Japanese domain-registration service, allowing account holders to access domain-management controls without entering a password. Members can register a passkey from the […]

AI agents helped steal 600,000 payment card records. This week’s AI Update covers real-world breaches, deepfake defenses and identity controls for agents.

NHS England has detailed a passkey change for its self-claimed Care ID service in the latest Care Identity Management release. Version 9.1 is scheduled to use AAL2 passkeys to strengthen […]

Japan’s GMO GlobalSign Holdings and VESS Labs have tested a system that lets AI agents developed by different companies verify each other’s identities and transaction authority using digitally signed credentials. […]