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Online computing represents probably the first new platform in thirty years. Not since the PC have we seen a whole new hardware-software-solution-product environment emerge. It's understandable that...
The Australian Payments Clearing Association (APCA) releases card fraud statistics every six months for the preceding 12m period. For the first time in many years, Australian card fraud has grown
It's terrific that merchants are increasingly pushing back on PCI-DSS. It really is high time we shifted the emphasis from ad hoc stop gap compromise measures, onto tackling the real problem: the rep...
A few months ago, the Australian banking consortium BPAY announced the cancellation of its promising and well funded account portabilty MAMBO. What does this mean for the even more audacious plans for...
The Atlanta Federal Reserve's Cindy Merritt -- assistant director of the Retail Payments Risk Forum -- offers a refreshing, plain talking critique of the PCI-DSS regime. She goes to the heart of the m...
Visa's digital wallet seems to take a different path from 3D Secure. If it's "digital" I wonder if it's interoperable online and how might it work over Internet? The digital wallet will stor...
It's been over a week and a zillion blog posts and tweets have already circulated about the PlayStation Network breach. Yet one security issue has yet to be canvassed. I'm more than a little surpris...
RSA's public response to the compromise of its famous SecurID One Time Password is curious. On the one hand, it's admirable to have disclosed that they've been 'hacked'; on the other hand, their pu
The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) released by the Whitehouse last month, is a proposal for a new “ecosystem” of diverse Internet IDs. It is the latest incarnation of...
Why is digital identity so tricky? The past decade is littered with earnest initiatives that failed to meet expectations (like the Australian Trust Centre) or consortia that over promised and unde
The Destination Hotels & Resorts cyber security breach is not the first report of credit card details being stolen from hotel databases. Hotels are a fantastic target for identity thieves. Hotel...
The announcement that a US credit union will be the first to issue EMV cards proves there is more than one way to make the business case for chip. The United Nations Credit Union says it wants its cu...