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The real issue in the new crop of hybrid cards that combine Chip & PIN with One Time Password generators is whether they represent a long term strategic advance, or are more about shorter term con...
The root problem in most identity theft as we know it today is the ease with which ID data can be taken over and replayed. Businesses ask for -- and obtain -- ever increasing amounts of precious ID d...
I can see how lifting account details from a terminal device can help an attacker take over a bank account via conventional channels, but I am not sure that this is an attack on the Chip and PIN syste...
While there is some reporatge of the latest report by the All Party Parliamentary Group on ID Fraud, I cannot find the APPG's report, or even its press release anywhere. The APPG's website (www.fhcrea...
One purpose for the planned UK National ID Card is that it is to be used to help banks confirm identity when individuals open new accounts or undertake certain higher risk transactions. The plan is f...
People often bemoan being treated "like numbers" in the modern world. If we think more deeply about ID theft, the real problem is that when we deal with people numerically, we need to tak
How is it that we have all forgotten that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure? Giving away anti-phishing software is shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted. Phishing and pha...
My first reaction to the news of Citi's special concierge (in which a reliable intermediary facilitates Singaporean online shoppers using US web stores) was, well, someone's going to be paying a nice ...
Perhaps because it's just not natural! Federated Identity is certainly one of the hotter topics in e-business and security circles currently. It promises to improve cost, efficiency and convenience ...
Reading between the lines, regulators will continue to take a big stick to institutions that leak personal data. And so they should. But there must be a more artful approach to stem the flood of s