I don’t know whether this is a slow news week or things are getting bad but check out all of these items this week: I could have easily listed twice as many hacks, but I stopped after a dozen. So you tell me – is this just a bad week or are the hackers winning? […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]American Banker is reporting that banks are not terribly happy with their customer’s adoption (or not) of Apple Pay. This probably has less to do with anything that Apple did or did not do, but rather with the fact that people don’t deal with change very well. While 84% of the banks reported they were […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If you either use credit cards or are a merchant that accepts credit cards (I think that covers most of us), your world is changing and changing rapidly. Sorry, this is going to be long, so you might want to get a cup of coffee and possibly some aspirin before you start reading. First, if […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]When I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the issues with Apple Pay security problems (see post), I didn’t really understand the scope of what I was writing about. Thanks to Brian Krebs (see his post), I now understand the problem is bigger than I thought. Let’s assume that you are a crook and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As I suspected when Apple Pay was released, the hackers did not just give up and say “this is too hard” and all get jobs at Burger King. No, instead they said, what vulnerabilities does Apple Pay have? The first one (at least that we know of) is something called yellow path. The hackers have […]
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