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Security Challenges In The Age Of Mobile Payments

It seems that the technology for supporting mobile payments will soon become widely available. Most of the major smartphone operating systems have announced support for NFC.…

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Visa Makes Mobile Acceptance Security Explicit
Visa Makes Mobile Acceptance Security Explicit

A few weeks ago there was a very public spat between Verifone, one of the leading providers of payments terminals, and…

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Data Classification - Learning To Walk Before We Run With Cloud Computing

I wanted to share a recent article from the editorial team at…

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Chip And PIN Gains Momentum In The U.S.
Chip And PIN Gains Momentum In The U.S.

Thales has previously noted in this blog as well as in the media about the US lagging behind the majority of the rest of the…

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PKI Is Dead. Again. Apparently.

Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen a few blows to some of the world’s larger certificate based security systems. The noise still hadn’t settled around stuxnet, with its stolen…

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Using AES And Triple DES In End-To-End Encryption To Protect Cardholder Data- A New Standard
Using AES And Triple DES In End-To-End Encryption To Protect Cardholder Data- A New Standard

In order to make compliance with PCI DSS requirement 3, “Protect stored cardholder” data and requirement 4, “Encrypt transmission of cardholder data across open, public…

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