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From e-commerce sites to social media profiles, passwords protect all kinds of sensitive information. But recent security breaches show just how vulnerable the system is. Earlier this year, the Heartbleed bug sent people scurrying to change passwords across a huge swathe of the Internet. And in May, eBay announced that over 200 million accounts may have been compromised in a security breach. This has boosted interest in behavioral biometrics, says Uri Rivner of Biocatch, a firm based in Tel Aviv, Israel. Behavioural biometrics is based on the idea that individuals subconsciously use their mouse and keyboard in predictable ways--and that these behaviors can reliably identify them. Examples of these actions include how quickly a user selects buttons that pop up on screen, how long they hover over menus, how fast they move the mouse and whether they scroll using the cursor keys, the scroll bar or the mouse wheel.
