Solutions for Cleaning Up a Mess: This Week’s Top Biometrics Stories
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Investigations and Identity Innovation: This Week’s Top Mobile ID Stories
It’s a motley mix in this week’s roundup of Mobile ID World’s top stories, featuring a couple of important investigations, authentication innovation, a notable new partnership, and, as is so often the case these days, some digital ID news.
The latter comes by way of Luxembourg, where citizens now have access to a government-issued mobile app that can be used for remote identity verification when accessing online government services. The GouvID app leverages MRZ reading and contactless communications to interact with a citizen’s physical ID card, and supports the use of biometric authentication on their mobile device for additional security and convenience:
Luxembourg Government Launches ID App for e-Services Authentication
As for the aforementioned investigations, one of them concerned the IRS and its remote identity verification partner ID.me. The organizations’ partnership provoked controversy earlier this year when the IRS announced that Americans filing their taxes online would have to undergo a biometric identity verification process using ID.me’s technology. In the wake of the backlash, the IRS and ID.me enabled a non-biometric identity verification options; nevertheless, Congress is now getting involved, with the House Oversight Committee and the House subcommittee for issues related to COVID-19 opening a formal investigation into the project:
Congress Investigates IRS’s Remote Onboarding Partner
The other investigation that stoked reader interest this week has already concluded. Okta had hired a third-party forensic firm to look into a hack attack the authentication specialist had suffered in January, and the company has now come forward with the results of the investigation. It wasn’t nearly as bad as the worst-case scenario that had previously been envisioned:
Investigation Finds Only Two Clients Affected in Okta Security Breach
The week’s big authentication innovation news, meanwhile, came from Facebook’s parent company. Meta’s engineers have come up with a new Anonymous Credential Service that is designed to allow large-scale authentication of individuals without requiring them to share any personal information. Meta says its ACS helps to…
Microsoft Detects ‘Destructive Malware’ Targeting Ukrainian Organisations & Other Stories
Super Sunday in UP as Ex-IPS Officer Asim Arun Joins BJP, Former MLA Dara Singh Chauhan Jumps to SP
Asim Arun, the former IPS officer who was posted as Commissioner of Kanpur Police before taking Voluntary Retirement recently, has joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday. Sources say that Asim Arun may be fielded from Kannauj in upcoming assembly elections. READ MORE
Mumbai’s Covid-19 cases continued to dip for the third consecutive day with 10, 661 fresh infections on Satuday even as the city recorded the highest single-day toll since July 29 last year. Mumbai had reported 16,420 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, 13,702 cases on Thursday and 11,317 on Friday, thus showing a steady decline. READ MORE
Actor Vikrant Massey Upsets Indian Cricket Fans with his Apology to South African Team
The third test match against South Africa made Indian skipper Virat Kohli upset and he ended up making comments against the host broadcasters through stump mic. Noticing this, actor Vikrant Massey came up with an apology on Twitter to the South African cricket team for the on-field behaviour of Indian players. This did not go down well with Indian cricket fans. READ MORE
Amrita Singh Accompanies Daughter Sara Ali Khan in Her Spiritual Retreat
Sara Ali Khan is known for her travel diaries and her visits to spiritual places. On Saturday morning, Sara sought the blessings of Lord Shiva at Ujjain’s famous Mahakaleshwar Jyotirlinga temple. In the company of her mother, actress Amrita Singh, Sara visited the Mahakal temple. READ MORE
Microsoft Detects ‘Destructive Malware’ Targeting Ukrainian Organisations
Microsoft Corp said in a blog post on Saturday it observed destructive malware in systems belonging to several Ukrainian government agencies and organisations that work closely with the Ukrainian government. The victims of the malware include Ukrainian government agencies that provide critical executive branch or emergency response functions, Microsoft said. Also affected was an information technology firm that manages websites for public and private sector clients, including government agencies…
Top 10 crime, national security and law stories of 2021
The intelligence services and the government have become increasingly vocal in campaigns for access to the contents of the public’s encrypted messages on Facebook, WhatsApp and other encrypted messaging services.
Government and industry attempts to develop a technical solution that will both preserve the integrity of communications and allow the state to bulk scan messages for criminal content have floundered.
Apple suspended its plans to install software on smart phones to automatically scan and report child abuse material in messages before they are encrypted. Top computer scientists and cryptographers had condemned the scheme as unworkable, vulnerable to abuse and a step towards bulk surveillance without warrant or suspicion. The former CEO of GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre, weighed-in to argue that end-to-end encryption must be permitted unless a technical compromise can be found that is acceptable to the tech industry and cryptography experts.
In practice, law enforcement and intelligence agencies have turned to “equipment interference” (also known as Computer Network Exploitation or hacking), to bypass end-to-end encryption altogether.
Police forces in the UK, Europe and the US collaborated in three major operations to hack into encrypted phone networks used by organised crime groups, leading to thousands of arrests world-wide.
The use of equipment interference to access encrypted phone messages has far reaching implications for the future use of intercept evidence in court.
For the past 65 years, the UK has banned the use of intercept evidence in court hearings. Following a legal decision in February, intercept evidence obtained through “equipment interference” can now be placed before juries.
1. EncroChat: Appeal court finds ‘digital phone tapping’ admissible in criminal trials
Judges have decided that communications collected by French and Dutch police from the encrypted phone network EncroChat using software “implants” are admissible evidence in British courts.
UK law prohibits law enforcement agencies from using evidence obtained from interception in criminal trials, but three judges found on 5 February 2021 that material…