The good folks over at Credit Card Processing Gist posted an article yesterday naming the flaws of Verififed By Visa and MasterCard’s Secure Code. Flawed technology and poor design meet good economics – telling us that price is the trump card when it comes to online authentication.
When we talk about the authentication space there are [...]

This year’s Consumer Electronics Show brought us some interesting trends and ideas.   In his review of the show, Lance Ulanoff lists 9 things he’s learned there.  In the last point in that post, he makes the observation that “the marriage of technology and content took center stage”.
There is a fundamental change in how we’ve been [...]

The FBI is advising small businesses – the same ones often operating on a shoestring – to use a dedicated PC for their online banking. It would seem that hackers are targeting small businesses, universities, and local businesses with keylogging malware – that is, software that records the keystrokes typically used to enter a password, [...]

We’re thinking Blippy may be just a proverbial blip on the radar. The passive social networking site (meaning, it updates your status for you) tells your friends how much you’re spending, and where. It  updates a twitter-like status about your credit card purchases.

The good:

if you’re trying to save dough, this could be a positive means [...]