by Tricerion | Oct 31, 2022 | Digital Inequalities, Featured, Retail, Usability
In 2018, Europe’s Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2) came into force across the EU, then in the UK. Over the summer, the European Commission started a series of consultations to review the effectiveness of the PSD2 regulations and determine the extent to which its...
by Tricerion | Mar 17, 2022 | Banking, Retail, SafeLogin™
PSD2 is a European regulation for electronic payment services that came in to force on 14th March. It seeks to make payments more secure in Europe, boost innovation and help banking services adapt to new technologies. PSD2 follows on from the original Payment...
by Tricerion | Jul 31, 2014 | Blog, Cyberthieves, Retail
While identity theft is no joke, we can’t help but notice that the recent Paddy Power breach struck online gamblers. Nearly 650,000 user credentials were stolen, and according to statistics, many of those credentials will also work for those users’ bank accounts and...
by Tricerion | Feb 28, 2014 | Cyberthieves, Passwords, Phishing, Retail, Trends, Usability, Vulnerabilities
Authentication is more like sushi than vintage art. It’s best when it’s fresh, and aging it only decreases the value. Vintage art appreciates in value over time, but security credentials are perishable products. You may be attached to your...
by Tricerion | Jan 20, 2014 | Passwords, Retail, Vulnerabilities
How creative are you when it comes to ordering a drink at Starbucks? Apparently, you are just as likely to keep ordering the same beverage as you are to use the same password for multiple websites. In an article in Computerworld Evan Schuman notes the security...
by Tricerion | Dec 10, 2013 | Banking, Cyberthieves, Mobile, Passwords, Phishing, Retail, Trends, Usability, Vulnerabilities
Phishing is a confidence problem. Last year the Royal Bank of Scotland paid out $285.7 million to their customers who experienced a service outage due to distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. In early December the bank was hit again with a similar attack. ...
