Category Archives: Smartcards
Safeguarding the pedigree of personal attributes
The problem of identity takeover The root cause of much identity theft and fraud today...
Sep
Postcard from Monterey 3 #CISmcc
Days 3 and 4 at CIS Monterey. Andre Durand’s Keynote The main sessions at the...
Postcard from Monterey #CISmcc
First Day Reflections from CIS Monterey. Follow along on Twitter at #CISmcc (for the Monterey...
Calling for a uniform approach to card fraud, offline and on
This blog is an edited extract from an article of the same name, first published...
FIDO Alliance goes from strength to strength
With a bunch of exciting new members joining up on the eve of the RSA...
The ROI for breaching Target
An unhappy holiday for Target customers A week before Christmas, Target in the US revealed...
My analysis of the FIDO Alliance
I’ve written a new Constellation Research “Quark” Report on the FIDO Alliance (“Fast Identity Online”),...
A serious advance in mobile device authentication
IBM Zurich researcher Diego Ortiz-Yepes recently revealed a new Two Factor Authentication technique in which...
Attribute wallets
There’s little debate now that attributes are at least as important as “identity” in making...
Killing two frauds with one chip
Last week saw the biggest credit card data breach for a while, with around 1.5...