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HOW TO: Make Sure Your Smartphone Payments Are Secure

By ⋅ 07/01/2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Better Understand Where Your Data Lives Above and beyond everything else, common sense dictates: If there’s enough money in the bank, someone will try to steal it. 7-Eleven only carries $20 cash at night for a reason. Your payment data should solely be stored on your phone and not in someone else’s database with tens [...]

12.5% of E-commerce Transactions Will Be Mobile By the End of 2013, Gartner Predicts by Bank Systems & Technology

By ⋅ 28/11/2010 ⋅ Post a comment

By year-end 2013, location information or profile information from mobile phones will be used to validate 90 percent of mobile transactions, according to analysts at Gartner. The analysts said the rapid adoption of smartphones is forcing banks, social networks and other e-commerce providers to implement the kinds of fraud detection capabilities that have become mainstream [...]

63% of Consumers Prefer Credit Card Verification By Fingerprint Over PIN, Signature or Photo by Bank Systems & Technology

By ⋅ 26/11/2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Responding to the question, “Which do you believe is the safest method to prove your credit card is being used by you?” the online poll found that 63 percent of more than 300 respondents preferred fingerprints as the best method for identity verification and authentication as compared to photo identification (20 percent), PIN numbers (13 [...]

EVERYBODY PANIC! -> Firesheep Lets You Hack Twitter, Facebook Accounts Easily

By ⋅ 25/10/2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Developer Eric Butler has exposed the soft underbelly of the web with his new Firefox extension, Firesheep, which will let you essentially eavesdrop on any open Wi-Fi network and capture users’ cookies. As Butler explains in his post, “As soon as anyone on the network visits an insecure website known to Firesheep, their name and [...]

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