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 [...]
Don’t you know that December is a great time to blog? There are end of year reviews, predictions for the next year, holiday hubub – this stuff nearly writes itself. Speaking of which, Earl Perkins at Gartner put up an interesting question the other week that prompted some soul-searching. He wants to know what identity [...]
Read the rest of this entry »The problem: banking websites, while highly useful and in fact necessary in today’s virtual economy, are also highly vulnerable to fraudulent attacks.
They could approach it the way AT&T did when they realized that 3% of users (iPhone owners) exploit 40% of bandwith – AT&T started looking for ways to discourage iPhone users from accessing the [...]
