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Strong Customer Authentication Under PSD2: EBA Insights
A fundamental objective of the Revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) has been to reduce the risk of fraud to the maximum extent possible and...
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Postbank Master Key Breach: Strong Key Management Importance
Martin Rupp (guest): 04. August 2020
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
Martin Rupp (guest): 24. July 2020
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
Martin Rupp (guest): 30. June 2020
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
Martin Rupp (guest): 25. June 2020
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
Chris Allen: 13. May 2020
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
Martin Rupp (guest): 01. May 2020
In the mobile environment, while debuggers are legal and legitimate development tools, hackers can also use them to reverse mobile banking and...