How the reddit security breach reminds us to be careful
Monday, August 6, 2018 by Austin Harris
reddit recently disclosed in their announcements feed of a security breach into their system which the hacker "managed to access some user data, including some current email addresses and a 2007 database backup containing old salted and hashed passwords." Include in the disclosed information was some reddit source code and some log files.
They went on to sa...
Exostar launches mobile multifactor authentication solution
Friday, December 15, 2017 by Richard Harris
Exostar has announced the general availability of a new option for multifactor authentication. Exostar Mobile ID is a smartphone or tablet app-based authenticator for which it has achieved Level 3 SAFE-BioPharma certification under the FICAM trust framework. The solution turns an individual’s mobile device into a secure hardware-based second factor for access control to...
An Analysis of the Starbucks Cyber Attack and How To Stay Protected
Wednesday, June 10, 2015 by Amit Ashbel
How much is a cup of coffee really worth? Several weeks ago, many Starbucks customers began reporting their Starbucks card balance emptied and then topped again. On May 13th, Starbucks released a written statement denying the un-authorized activity was a result of a hack or an intrusion to its servers or mobile app. But the hard facts show that indeed customers ha...
Feedzai Fraud Detection Service API Receives Updates
Thursday, February 26, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Feedzai is a data science company launched last fall that uses real-time, machine-based learning to help payment providers, banks and retailers prevent fraud in omnichannel commerce through its fraud detection service API. The Fraud API provides fraud detection in real-time with human-readable explanations (i.e. whitebox scoring) helping merchants understand why th...
Vietnam's First Bitcoin Leverage Trading Platform Launched by VBTC Vietnam and Coinarch
Monday, December 15, 2014 by Richard Harris
VBTC Vietnam Co. Ltd. and Coinarch Pte. Ltd. have announced the launch of “VBTC plus,” Vietnam’s first bitcoin leverage trading platform this month. The partnership between Coinarch and VBTC Vietnam will allow the Vietnamese market to keep up with developments in nations located within the greater(South-)East-Asian area. VBTC Vietnam offers a strong understan...
Duo Security Releases API Edition as well as iOS and Android SDKs for Two Factor Authentication
Wednesday, October 15, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Duo Security has released its Duo API Edition for cloud and mobile software providers to protect user account access. Duo API Edition enables developers to add two-factor authentication to their applications with Duo Security automatically handling of all of the operational aspects of authentication, such as key management and provisioning, alerting and reporting, self-...
Infobip Extends 2 way SMS Messaging Coverage to 40 Countries
Thursday, August 21, 2014 by Richard Harris
Infobip is extending its 2-way SMS messaging coverage to 40 countries, including the U.S., Brazil, China, India, Russia, South Africa and Mexico. 2-way SMS messaging enables online businesses, service providers, application developers, and marketing agencies etc. to offer their users instant, time-sensitive mobile consumer interaction. For every country covered, In...
Develop Apps for Any Device and Any Platform With AppMethod's New Platform
Saturday, June 21, 2014 by Richard Harris
Embarcadero has introduced its latest release of Appmethod which allows developers to use C++ to create apps for Android, iOS, Windows, and Mac OS X. This release of Appmethod now includes a "Free Forever" subscription plan that C++ developers can use to create Android apps to be published on any public app store (e.g., Amazon App Store and Google Play). ...
Diamond Fortress Technologies Offers Developers ONYX HD3 Biometric Touchless Fingerprint SDK
Monday, May 19, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
We reported on May 6th that Diamond Fortress Technologies is now offering Android Developers ICE Unlock. This was inaccurate in that ICE Unlock is the company’s consumer facing biometric fingerprint authentication unlock application available for Android which can be downloaded in the Google Play Store. The SDK for developers is actually ONYX HD3, a touch...
New SDK for Building In App Mobile Two Factor Authentication Solutions
Friday, April 18, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
SecureKey is now offering a new developer program and online portal to make available its multi-factor authentication platform to developers of Android and iOS apps. The SecureKey Developer Program and its Developer Portal offers developers access to the briidge.netConnect Mobile SDK and security APIs, a sandbox testing environment, a developer forum, pl...
