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Mass adoption of mobile payment services derailed by security, privacy concerns

19

Nov

2015

Evaluating the mobile payment preferences of 1,217 consumers from the U.S., a new Research Now survey revealed that 17 percent of respondents who did not make holiday purchases with their mobile phone last year, plan to use a payment service such as Apple Pay, Android Pay, Samsung Pay or a proprietary service from their bank […]

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HTC phone stores fingerprints in easily accessible plaintext

11

Aug

2015

Pressing a finger on your mobile phone’s fingerprint scanner has to be the easiest, most seamless way to unlock the device, and this is why more and more manufacturers equip their mobile products with it. In fact, it is predicted that by 2019, 50% of all shipped smartphone will have a fingerprint sensor. But there […]

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Carphone Warehouse breach – now come the hard questions

10

Aug

2015

Year: 2015 Number of customers breached: 2.4 million (90,000 credit card numbers) Brands affected: TalkTalk #mobile, Talk Mobile, OneStopPhoneShop.co.uk, e2save.com #data taken: not credit card numbers but names, addresses, dates of birth Was it sophisticated? The word has become meaningless. All breaches are now described that way Period of breach: around two weeks to 5 […]

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