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Banks and Credit Card Issuers Move Toward Chip and PIN

EMV, which stands for Europay, MasterCard, and Visa, refers to the chip and PIN credit card technology commonly used in Europe and elsewhere around the world. Credit cards that incorporate an embedded microprocessor chip are far more secure than any other form of credit card currently available, including the standard magnetic striped cards that are […]

Social Security Number: All-Purpose Identifier

Your Social Security number was never meant to serve the various functions it is used for today. Over the past 70 years, the Social Security number has become our de facto national ID. The numbers were originally issued in the 1930s, to track income for Social Security benefits. But “functionality creep,” which occurs when an […]

6 More Holiday Shopping Tips

My goal is to not enter a single mall this holiday season. If I can do the majority of my holiday shopping at trusted online retailers, and the rest at Costco, then I’ve done well. To me, malls seem to be places for people with lots of time on their hands to drive around looking […]

Security Assets: Is it safe with your processes in key management?

Have you ever met a person who writes down his or her password and posts it everywhere? People like your friend usually find it very hard to memorize different passwords considering passwords nowadays need to be strong and must include special characters. So instead of memorizing it, jotting down the password on paper and puts […]

DNS Threats: Threats That You Shouldn’t Ignore

DNS is a system containing domain names. We use DNS at least a million times a day without knowing that we are using it or that DNS exists. Technology can are targets of daily threats. DNS is also accessible to threats and viruses. DNS are usually overlooked due to its ubiquitous nature. In the present […]