In some ways, payments authentication can come across as improvisational — every institution seems to use a different method. Call centers, particularly those dealing with financial transactions, have a strong need to be sure that the person on the other end of the line is actually...
The rise of the machines? Not the latest Transformers or Terminator retread. The machines that we speak of here are the ones that act as the velvet rope, the bouncers if you will, of the financial industry. The ones who use data gleaned from thousands of...
EBay is opening up, as it were, to the Fast IDentity Online (FIDO) Alliance — marking a first for any eCommerce company. The online marketplace announced yesterday (March 29) that it has directly achieved FIDO certification, as well as open-sourced a FIDO UAF authentication server and...
JPMorgan Chase is taking online security seriously — so much so that it will begin disabling customers’ access to their accounts through third-party software if they don’t take additional verification steps. The bank sent a notice to a few hundred thousand customers on Monday (Nov....
December 03, 2018
Water always finds the lowest point — that’s a fact of life. So, too, is this: Underaged consumers will always try, and often find ways to, circumvent restrictions on purchases of goods that they are not supposed to buy until they reach maturity or, at least, the age of majority. Excuse the homespun wisdom, but […]
February 13, 2018
The rise of the machines? Not the latest Transformers or Terminator retread. The machines that we speak of here are the ones that act as the velvet rope, the bouncers if...
March 30, 2016
EBay is opening up, as it were, to the Fast IDentity Online (FIDO) Alliance — marking a first for any eCommerce company. The online marketplace announced yesterday (March 29) that it has directly achieved FIDO certification, as well as open-sourced a FIDO UAF authentication server and Android client, thus gaining membership in both. This is notable, […]
November 25, 2015
JPMorgan Chase is taking online security seriously — so much so that it will begin disabling customers’ access to their accounts through third-party software if they don’t take additional verification...
