Walt Disney World’s investment in MagicBands seems to be paying off. The wristbands uses radio frequency technology. Guests can tap the band to touch points in places around the park entrances and FastPass+ entrances. Guests are also required to provide biometric identification – a fingerprint – or a photo ID at the entrance.

Two-factor authentication is often pointed to as a way to improve online identification. And while two-authentication is an improvement over user names and passwords it can still be hacked. One of the latest attacks is a variation on a man-in-the-middle attack called Operation Emmental that’s being used in Europe.

A new trend in the enterprise market is starting to emerge: “Bring Your Own Identity.” It’s already being used in the business-to-consumer realm under the moniker of social login, but people often don’t realize this is actually a form of BYOID and enterprises are looking to make use of these identity credentials in the future as well.

Russian hackers have gained access to 1.2 billion user names and passwords from 420,000 sites. The breaches range from small business sites to large everyday names. Many of these sites are still vulnerable as well. This may well prove to be the largest identity credential breach in history but will it change anything?

Heartbleed was a bug in OpenSSL software used on web servers worldwide. OpenSSL encrypts data sent from the server to web visitors. It includes a feature called a heartbeat, which sends some data back to the visitor’s browser to let it know the site is ready and waiting for request and the heartbeat sends the same amount of data that the browser received, like an echo. But the Heartbleed bug added a vulnerability that could enable passwords and other data could have been openly accessed and the hackers likely would have gone undetected.

The embedded fingerprint scanner on the iPhone 5s has paved the way for greater acceptance of biometric technology, according to the Future Password Index from digital financial services provider Intelligent Environments. Some 79% of Brits would ditch passwords in favor of biometric security measures like fingerprint scanners.

“Operation Emmental” – as in swiss cheese – is a variation om a man-in-the-middle attack, that found a way around two-factor authentication tokens that are sent as text messages for users to activate banking sessions.