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Postbank Master Key Breach: Strong Key Management Importance
In the last couple of months, facts regarding breaches that occurred during December 2018 at PostBank, the national postal bank operator of South...
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Understanding Tokenization in Banking and Finance
Tokenization is a generalized concept of a cryptographic hash. It means representing something by a symbol (‘token’).
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The Reasons Why a Banking KMS Must Support Atalla Key Blocks
Invented by Mohamed Atalla, the Atalla key block is the root of all key blocks. All over the globe, hundreds of millions of financial transactions...
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Why Native Code Obfuscation is Essential for Mobile Apps
In the mobile environment, source code is often distributed without enough security. Programs compiled as bytecode, such as the ones developed for...
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W3C's suggestion for a Web Cryptography API
The World Wide Web Consortium or W3C as it is commonly known was founded in 1994 by the original architect of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee. It...
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How to Secure the Lifecycle of Cryptographic Keys
This article discusses the main phases involved in the life-cycle of a cryptographic key, and how the operational lifetime of a key and its strength...
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Symmetric Cryptography & Key Management: Exhaustion & Rotation
With data protection standards, such as GDPR, and the sheer mass of data that companies collect and accumulate, the protection and control of...
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Mobile Banking Security: 10 Anti-Debugging Methods & Techniques
In the mobile environment, while debuggers are legal and legitimate development tools, hackers can also use them to reverse mobile banking and...
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Fixing HTTPS Vulnerabilities in Mobile Banking & Payment Apps
Here we describe some of the HTTPS vulnerabilities in the context of mobile banking and their countermeasures.