96 Results from 2018, /security
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
Have you ever used Facebook to sign onto another site? Many of us do this pretty blindly simply because it is very convenient. But, this convenience could come at a cost. You know the drill. You go to a website and it says “Log In With Facebook.” or Google. Usually, it just takes a couple of clicks and no logging in with other usernames or passwor...
23 October 2018 /security
Olivier Thirion De Briel
The multi-factor authentication market is experiencing new dynamics. For the last 15 years, strong authentication was not a top of mind concern for organizations and was mainly based on hardware tokens generating one-time passwords (OTPs), a temporary 6 or 8 digit password. The user was required to first generate an OTP on his token and then copy/...
22 October 2018 /ai /security Disruption in Retail Banking
You have a mobile phone, you might think it’s pretty safe, but what you might not realize is that these devices can have spyware on them. Keep in mind, many of the “signs” listed below are everyday normal phone behaviors. But combined, might mean spyware. Here are some of the signs: Unusual Background Noise While common, humming, static, or other...
19 October 2018 /security
Jason Bell Regional Sales Director, FS&I at ServiceNow
May 25 May 25 2018 saw the official birth of GDPR. It will long be remembered as the day from which organisations handling or processing personal data belonging to EU citizens became accountable, fine-able, and responsible, in ways that had never before been quite so stringent. Now we can watch and wait to see who breaks the rules. Salutary lesso...
12 October 2018 /security /regulation Digital Banking Trends
Retired Member
Biometric payments are a way to verify identity, stop fraud and make payments frictionless. However, there are still many consumers that fail to get behind biometrics due to the personal nature of biometrics. Many people still feel uncomfortable using new technologies. Less so with Millennials where 77% of them find alternative payment methods s...
12 October 2018 /security /payments Biometrics
Where should you live in the world? What Game of Thrones family are you in? What is the food that best describes your personality? All of these answers are given and found by doing quizzes on Facebook. You have surely seen them if you use Facebook, and have may have taken these quizzes, but you definitely might want to consider stopping. If you ha...
11 October 2018 /security
The first instalment of this blog looked at how adaptive networks can transform customer experience in financial services. Now I’ll look at the impact this is having on data strategies and cybersecurity risks for financial institutions. Before digital transformation became an industry theme, financial services organizations spent most of their effo...
10 October 2018 /security
Scott Cutler Director, at Fortinet
It seems like the whole world is talking about bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology – around dinner tables, at the pub, and even in government meetings. It has also become a hot topic in boardrooms, where discussions around bitcoin aren’t just focused on its ever-fluctuating value. For many organisations, the focus is around how c
05 October 2018 /security Futuristic Banking
Uma Pasupathy Lead Consultant at Edgeverve
Internet banking and its associated digital transformations have made lives easy for many who dreaded going to branches for carrying out regular banking transactions. Many tasks which were considered mundane were made easy with the clicks of a button. Both the bankers and the customers heaved a sigh of relief when technology helped in saving time ...
05 October 2018 /security
Sean Neary Senior Product Officer at Featurespace
The finance world may still have concerns after it was revealed that British Airways (BA) was victim to a two-week long hack that resulted in 380,000 payments being compromised in August. And while everyone might be on high alert today for how fraudsters will use this data trove, the real risk may come further down the line. The hackers used “very...
04 October 2018 /ai /security Transaction Fraud Systems and Analysis
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