Author Archives: Stephen Wilson

Killing two frauds with one chip

Last week saw the biggest credit card data breach for a while, with around 1.5...

CNP fraud is just online carding

I recently posted the latest Card Not Present fraud figures for Australia. Technologically, CNP fraud...

Card Not Present now three quarters of all fraud

The Australian Payments Clearing Association (APCA) releases card fraud statistics every six months for the...

Ski runs and LOAs

In Identity and Access Management, Levels of Assurance (LOAs) are an attempt to harmonise the...

A penny for your marketable thoughts?

Most people think that Apple’s Siri is the coolest thing they’ve ever seen on a...

A software engineer’s memoir (work in progress)

I’m an ex software “engineer” [I have reservations about that term] with some life experience...

What stops Target telling you’re pregnant?

Question: What stops Target from telling that you’re pregnant? Answer: In many parts the world,...

Information companies and the Use Limitation Principle

Google has copped a lot of flak over its move to join up all services...

Niche is a better word for it

With the term “ecosystem” being bandied about so much, I started thinking ecologically last year....

The end of standards

A colleague drew my attention to what he called “yet another management standard”. Which got...