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Why Layering Is Going Out Of Fashion In Consumer Authentication

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Google’s Project Zero, an in-house team tasked with finding and publishing security and privacy vulnerabilities it finds in public software, released a blog post detailing major security holes it had discovered in iPhone software going back two years. Increasingly they are about finding ways to make the cleverest possible lock.

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Fighting Fraudsters At The FI/Customer Journey Starting Line

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Increasingly, fraudsters are striking at the very beginning of customers’ relationships with banks and credit unions (CUs), focusing their efforts on account takeovers and new account fraud. There are new data privacy concerns, too.”. Traditional FIs, he said, have been wary of disintermediation by FinTechs.

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As PSD2 Gets Off the Ground, Fraudsters Gear Up

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PSD2 — along with the European Union’s (EU) newly enacted General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which covers online privacy and security — promises to slowly influence the global digital economy in ways that will take time to be seen clearly. Stephen Topliss, vice president of product strategy at ThreatMetrix , in a recent essay.