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IBM has unveiled a prototype USB stick designed to secure online banking transactions against malware and man-in-the-middle attacks.
29 October 2008
Colorado-based Jeffco Credit Union is using phone-based authentication technology from Positive Networks to protect its online customers from phishing scams.
08 October 2008
Cardholder take-up of the MasterCard SecureCode and Verified by Visa online authentication services has increased by 600% over the past two years, according to stats from UK payments group Apacs.
22 September 2008
US security firm SafeNet is gearing up to launch an online PIN issuance system that was developed in partnership with UK Web banking outfit Egg.
17 September 2008
SunGard is incorporating digital authentication technology from IdenTrust into its AvantGard treasury management product.
15 September 2008
Canada's TD Waterhouse Discount Brokerage has introduced a voice authentication system which will be used instead of questions to verify the identity of clients over the phone.
14 August 2008
China Merchants Bank (CMB) is implementing voice authentication technology supplied by Israel-based PerSay which it will use to verify the identity of customers calling its contact centres.
05 August 2008
Barclays is extending the use of Gemalto handheld chip and PIN devices, letting online customers use the readers to authenticate large value transactions and international payments, after reporting zero fraud among the first million users.
09 July 2008
UK bank Lloyd TSB is to use IdenTrust authentication technology to provide corporate customers with secure access to the Bacstel-IP payments platform.
25 June 2008
Spanish banking group Banco Sabadell is teaming with Vodafone to set up a system that enables its staff to sign documents electronically using their mobile phones.
19 June 2008
UK consumers don't feel safe accessing their bank accounts over the phone, with 80% believing there are security gaps in current identity verification methods, according to research conducted by Harris Interactive.
04 June 2008
Brazil's Banco Itau is rolling out multi-factor authentication technology from e-security outfit Vasco to 1.6 million users of its retail Internet banking service.
07 May 2008
Digital security outfit Vasco is to sell its two-factor authentication devices direct to the consumer via high street retailers and online markets such as eBay.
15 April 2008
Shares in nCipher soared in morning trading after the UK encryption technology vendor said it has received "a number of preliminary approaches" for its business.
11 April 2008
Sweden's Precise Biometrics has been awarded a research grant worth SKr5.7 million to participate in an EU-funded project to develop an advanced identity management system that combines fingerprint biometrics and cryptography
31 March 2008
Despite continuing security concerns, two thirds of customers do not want their bank to provide chip and PIN-style authentication devices, according to UK high street bank Abbey.
25 March 2008
Jordan-based Arab Bank is rolling out multi-factor authentication technology from e-security firm Vasco to provide its customers with secure access to its new Internet banking service, Arabi Online.
Japanese Mizuho Bank is rolling out multi-factor authentication technology from e-security firm Vasco to users of its retail Internet banking service, Mizuho Direct.
27 February 2008
French smartcard vendor Oberthur Technologies has made a SKr704 million (EUR76 million) cash bid for Swedish rival XPonCard.
19 February 2008
Nationwide Building Society has contracted with French vendor Xiring for the provision of over one million handheld authentication devices which it will begin rolling out to its online retail banking customers this spring.
29 January 2008
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