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• Managed information cards for secure online purchasing

  Published: September 11, 2007, 1:07 pm

  Tags: Windows Cardspace, Digital Identity, Information Cards, Secure Payment

  the world leader in retail payments - over half the plastic card transactions in the world (55 billion last year) go through ACI’s software at banks, merchants and networks in over 85

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• Burton Group goes to Mainstreet

  Published: October 9, 2007, 12:11 am

  Tags: Identity, User Centric, Identity Metasystem, Privacy, Linkage, Secure Payment

  In this cogent article, the New York Times’ Denise Caruso distinguishes herself with a compelling treatment of complex identity and privacy issues. For instance, her characterization of Mint.com is enough to turn the Flying Nun into a paranoid: “In exchange for customers uploading their account information and allowing sponsors

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• Massive breach could involve 94 million credit cards

  Published: October 24, 2007, 6:29 pm

  Tags: Laws Of Identity, Privacy, Hacking, Spoofing, Minimal Disclosure, Secure Payment

  According to Britain’s The Register, the world’s largest credit card heist might be twice as large as previously admitted. A retailer called TJX was able to create a system so badly conceived, designed and implemented that 94 million accounts could be stolen. It is thought that the potential cost could reach 1 billion

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• UK Chip and PIN vulnerable to simple attack

  Published: February 27, 2008, 2:20 pm

  Tags: Believe It Or Not, Digital Identity, Privacy, Secure Payment, Hacking

  LightBlueTouchpaper, a blog by security researchers at Cambridge University, has posted details of a study documenting easy attacks on the new generation of British bank cards. Saar Drimer explains, ”This attack can capture the card's PIN because UK banks have opted to issue cheaper cards that do not use asymmetric cryptography”.

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