On May 24, 1844, the message, “What hath God wrought!” was sent by telegraph from Baltimore, Maryland, to our nation’s Capitol in Washington, DC. A new era in long-distance communications had begun.

One of the serious threats to a user's computer is a software program that might cause unwanted keystroke sequences to occur in order to hack someone's identity. This form of an attack is increasing, ...

New research proposes a new keystroke algorithm which intends on making online authentication processes more secure, reliable, and cheap. The new method hopes to alleviate some of the common issues ...

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It never ceases to amaze me that as soon as I think some company is unique within a particular niche, another vendor comes along – sometimes three or four others – to occupy the same space. So it was ...

PROVO, Utah — Identity fraud can cost consumers thousands of dollars and take hundreds of hours to correct, but BYU professors have recently created a system that may detect online fraud and prevent ...

Information systems professors at BYU have created a technology using JavaScript that can detect online identity fraud simply by measuring interaction behaviors like keystroke speed. The detection ...

Identifying or authenticating people based on how they type is not a new idea, but thanks to advances in artificial intelligence it can now be done with a very high level of accuracy, making it a ...