Tag: One-time-password

Building a More Secure Internet

It is critical that consumers are certain that the site they visit is the one they intended to access. A new policy signed by the Obama Administration will change the way we do business on the internet.

mBanking’s Big Advantage

As one billion people turn to mobile phones and tablets to access the Internet, eBankers are seizing the opportunity to significantly enhance the security of their online banking and e-commerce, enable peer-to-peer mobile money, and develop a new mBanking channel.

Are passwords dead yet?

Despite frequent reports of email hacks and enterprise data breaches, the username and password method for authentication is still one of the primary security measures used today. How do we create secure online identities?

Should we trust an internet browser?

Where does trust come from? In Ericka Chickowski’s article on the future of the internet’s authentication mechanisms, she raises the debate about trust being driven by our browsers instead of through our passwords. As I wrote recently on the death of the password, I thought it important to touch upon the user’s ability to make […]

Secure eBanking with Ezio Optical Reader – it’s easy

We recently experienced one of the biggest tech events of the year – CES 2012. A hub of technology launches, consumer experiences and computing giants jostling for attention, one of the key trends at the show was motion-enabled TV and motion-controlled devices (think Tom Cruise using a Minority Report-style control of content on screens and […]

Yet another hack – passwords (and storing them) fail again

After the LinkedIn debacle, it’s depressing but not entirely surprising to see yet further reports of large-scale hacks, this time of Yahoo! losing 400,000 usernames and passwords to anonymous hackers. It seems amazing to us, working as we do in the security industry, that the passwords were stored in plaintext with absolutely no form of […]