Mobile wallets: The new fraud frontier

Mobile wallets are enjoying increasing adoption. Payments made via mobile devices in the United States are expected to total $90 billion by 2017, a big jump from the $12.8 billion

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Netformx Discovery now available to Cisco Smart Net Total Care service customers

Netformx has announced that Netformx Discovery™ now supports Cisco Smart Net Total Care™. By utilising the power of Netformx Discovery, users can now audit and discover their multi-vendor networks in minutes to

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Huntsman Security introduces the first automated threat verification to dramatically reduce time-at-risk

Huntsman has introduced the first vendor agnostic machine learning-based Automated Threat Verification (ATV) technology.

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What can telcos learn from TalkTalk’s recent data security breach? – Part 2

Last month telecom giant, TalkTalk, became the victim of a cyber attack when hackers accessed its customers personal data. Cybercrime is big business for hackers and it’s on the rise.

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TeleSign announces partnership with Swisscom

TeleSign, has announced an agreement with Swisscom, which will lead to the development and delivery of new identity services to enable greater online account security, verify financial and ecommerce transactions,

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What can telcos learn from TalkTalk’s recent data security breach? – Part 1

What history does TalkTalk have of being hacked? There have been three attacks on the company within nine months. The first was in February, where customers were informed that personal

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FIME test tool selected to support advanced mobile security standards in China

The China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) has expanded its longstanding relationship with FIME.

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As Vodafone admits data security breach, vendor calls for switch from ‘insecure’ KBA authentication

On the heels of this weekend’s Vodafone breach and last week’s TalkTalk breach, we continue to see a striking trend that no matter how diligent a company is in trying

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UK quad play operator TalkTalk trips up in response to being hit by ‘sustained’ cyber attack on 4m users

Following the news that TalkTalk suffered a “significant and sustained cyber-attack” last week, its CEO, Dido Harding has led a continuous programme of customer information and damage limitation. Much of

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‘Criminal’ attitude of car makers to consumers, Asimov’s Law and vulnerable utility networks

Technological leaps are meat and drink to these columns. But today Jim McNiel doesn’t seem to want to talk about that, so much as how to use the leaps. As

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