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 [...]

Zack Whittaker’s post on whether we still need usernames/passwords is fueling an interesting debate at ZDNet.  The premise is familiar  – everyone is tired of storing their hundreds of passwords in an Excel sheet or a password management app.  Wouldn’t it be nice if all websites would just “join hands” so to speak, and create [...]

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, [...]

Making it to the top of the BBC Technology page, a video posted on YouTube shows how the latest HP face recognition technology fails to “see” a black person.  The video is pretty funny to watch. Have you seen it? If not, here it is for your viewing pleasure. In light of this interesting story, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]