ElectraCard Services, a division of Opus Software Solutions providing software and processing solutions for e-payment systems, has been selected by Sathapana Ltd., the leading micro-finance institutuion in Cambodia, to provide ATM and card services. The PA-DSS compliant electraSwitch and electraDebit products will power electronic banking services for Sathapana customers.
CloudConvert Converts Almost Any File Type Between Formats
Converting files between formats is never a fun thing to do. When you’re working on different systems, it’s a pain to do, and you often need a ton of software. CloudConvert is a web app that can convert 140 different file types.
Replacing passwords and PINs with your heartbeat
We’ve been hearing for a while now that passwords will soon become a thing of the past and, as it seems now, biometric authentication is likely to take their place.
The latest innovation in this field comes from Canadian startup Bionym, whose team created Nymi, a bracelet / wristband containing an ECG (electrocardiogram) sensor that “reads” the unique heartbeat pattern of the wearer and uses it to authenticate into a variety of electronic devices (cars, computers, smartphones, TVs, etc.).
10 Years Later: Could an Epic Blackout Happen Again?
It’s been exactly a decade since a cascading blackout across the Northeast crippled commerce and transportation in the U.S. and Canada by cutting off power to 50 million people and causing up to $10 billion of damage to the economy.
An interview in Fox Business about the threats to the Power Grid and the risk of another Black Out.
Funny take on a few Tech Buzz Words
IT Admin: We will put our dark data on a pass as we have yottabytes of it.
Manager: Can you shed some light on issue please.
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Interesting and scary things from Black Hat 2013
Black Hat 2013 concluded in the first week of August.
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Ensuring Communication during an incident
Most organisations are so tuned towards securing their systems that they fail to build proper responses or communication protocols during an incident. Expecting every organisation to be immune from incidents is unrealistic, but least organisations can do is to ensure proper communication during an incident. Continue reading “Ensuring Communication during an incident”
Evil 8: Mobile Security Threats
CSA (Cloud Security Alliance), an non-profit organization with a mission to promote security best practices within cloud computing, has come up with a list of ‘Top Threats to Mobility’ from a cloud centric view point. These threats, named as ‘Evil 8.0’ by CSA, have been listed below. Though, these threats are cloud centric, they are very relevant to all mobile end users and enterprises which are not on the cloud. Continue reading “Evil 8: Mobile Security Threats”
India’s white label initiative off to a slow start
“Make haste slowly,” seems to be the theme of India’s initiative to bring ATM-based financial services to the country’s millions of rural unbanked citizens. Of 13 IADs that have received in-principal approval from the Reserve Bank of India to install white label ATMs throughout the country, only one — Tata Communications — has actually commenced operations.
Dbinbox: Enable anonymous uploads to your Dropbox
Dropbox is one of the most popular file synchronization and cloud hosting services on today’s Internet.
Dbinbox is a third party open source service that enables anonymous uploads on Dropbox. What is meant by that is that you can use their web service afterwards – without signing in if you want – to upload files to your Dropbox account.