US-based startup uQontrol has pre-launched what it claims is the world’s first ‘three-factor’ authentication token consumers can use to secure online shopping transactions and personal data from sophisticated man-in-the-middle attacks, keyloggers and phishing trickery.
Outwardly the Qkey is a metal USB stick in a key shape but a closer look reveals an embedded EMV chip of the sort Europeans have been using for a decade on credit and debit cards but which are only now being offered to US consumers.
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