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Banks and credit card security, where's the outrage?

The PCI-DSS, the ungainly acronym for payment card industry data security standards, has been roundly criticized as of late by government officials and industry executives. The Associated Press piles

Interesting attempts to make remote access more secure

At Visa and Deloitte, IT employees will be given a special visa card that include an actual alpha-numeric display, microprocessor, keypad and battery. If a user enters a PIN into the card, the

Is mobile banking secure?

There has been a lot of press recently about the rise of mobile financial applications. But a ZDNet item poses an obvious question: How secure are all those mobile applications. The article notes

When will investment banks fully embrace biometrics?

In the wake of the Jerome Kerviel scandal, biometric technologies shot to the top of the list of trading room security technologies. But few banks have yet to fully embrace the technology. One big

Small banks respond to security threats

Most of the big phishing attacks we've discussed recently involve big institutions, but small banks have felt the threat as well, reports Bank Systems & Technology. And some experts discern a

Where will biometrics make the first inroads?

There has been a lot of talk recently about banks deploying biometric-based technologies as a security tool. It's fair to say that the technology will find its place in the industry. The ISO just