Finextra: Chip and PIN security flaw uncovered
An investigation by the UK’s London Programme has uncovered a security flaw in Chip and PIN payment cards which allows fraudsters to disable and over-ride chip security measures using information embedded in the magnetic strip.
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Smart Cards at the Crossroads: Authenticator or Privacy Invader
By Ari Schwartz, The Center for Democracy and Technology
Published by the Direct Selling Education Foundation, in “At Home With Consumers,” Volume 19/Number 3/December 1998
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Report commissioned by:
Electronic Commerce Task Force
Industry Canada
Prepared by:
Angie Barrados, Researcher
Public Interest Advocacy Centre
1204 – 1 Nicholas Street
Ottawa, Ontario
K1N 7B7
barrados@web.net
http://www.piac.ca
April 2000
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Make Customers Part of Your Team
Guidance for Owners/Managers
One way businesses are helping their employees work better together is with internal company websites — better known as “intranet” sites.
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Cryptoflex .NET powered Card from Axalto Makes Smart Cards Easier to Deploy
Amsterdam, November 16, 2004 – Axalto (Euronext:NL0000400653 AXL) announced today the first commercial deployment of Axalto’s .NET-based smart cards to help secure access to Microsoft’s corporate network. Axalto’s Cryptoflex .NET powered smart card is a secure, ultra-miniature personal computing technology that runs a small footprint version of the .NET Framework. The .NET-based smart card provides customizable two-factor authentication as well as full cryptographic capabilities, seamlessly via the standard Microsoft .NET programming tools and interfaces. Microsoft marks the first enterprise deployment of the .NET-based smart card.
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Finextra: MasterCard launches SMS fraud alert system
MasterCard has teamed with mBlox, a provider of mobile messaging services, to launch a fraud prevention system that enables banks to use SMS text messages to report suspicious card transactions to customers.
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Finextra: Nokia releases phone shell for contactless payments
Nokia has released a shell for its series 3220 mobile phone that will enable consumers to use the hand set for making contactless payments.
The shell uses near field communications (NFC) technology and allows customers to make payments by pointing the phone at a point-of-sale terminal. Payment information, such as debit and credit card details, is stored in an integrated smart chip in the shell.
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Pew Internet & American Life Project: Online Banking 2005
Fifty-three million people, or 44% of internet users and one-quarter of all adults, now say they use online banking. Those figures amount to an increase of 47% over the number of Americans who were performing online banking in late 2002. Of all the major internet activities tracked by the Project since its inaugural survey in March 2000, online banking has grown the fastest. Internet users with high-speed connections, those with six or more years of experience, and those between 28-39 years old are the most likely to bank online.
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Yahoo! News – Online Banking Growing Rapidly, Survey Finds
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Nearly half of all U.S. adult Internet users now manage their bank accounts online, making banking the fastest-growing online activity, according to a survey released on Wednesday.
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Dell Unwraps Trusted Security Notebooks – Yahoo! UK & Ireland News
ComputerWire Staff
Dell (NASDAQ: DELL – news) has made good on promises to offer built-in support for the Trusted Platform Module on selected desktop and notebooks systems in early 2005, releasing three new notebooks that are built around the TPM security technology.
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