Online and Digital Identification, Securing Web 2.0, PKI and Digital Certificates

Secure browsers pave the way to secure ID?

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Devices, credentials can help protect online transactions

The old way of robbing a bank meant busting into a branch, brandishing a weapon and ordering a teller to hand over all the money.

Next-gen criminals accomplish their stealing from the comfort of their own homes. Their weapon of choice is malware, and the scene of the crime is often a bank’s website. Although they may have abandoned some of the more violent tactics, today’s thieves are more dangerous when it comes to emptying money out of bank accounts.

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BNC National Bank, a national bank serving customers in North Dakota, Arizona and Minnesota, is offering sit commercial customers IronKey Trusted Access to improve online security and help protect customers from cyber thieves targeting online banking users of ACH and wire transfer services.

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Thursby Software Systems, Inc. has released the PKard Reader, a touch Web browser solution for the iOS that includes secure authentication to a personal smart card.

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Sensor supplier Fingerprint Cards AB (FPC) has extended its partnership with Chinese biometrics provider Miaxis Biometrics Co. LTD to deliver biometrics products to the Chinese banking sector.

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The market for smart cards and secure ICs achieved double-digit year-over-year growth for shipments in 2011, demonstrating increases of 16% and 15%, respectively, according to ABI Research

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