Charlotte Hanson interviews Ralf Gladis, CEO of Computop on Apple Pay. Questions whose answers are attempted in the interview are as below. Happy reading:
· Apple Pay – what it is?
· How innovative is it?
· How secure it is – especially in light of the photo/iCloud stories recently and what security technologies is it based on?
· How it will work for merchants? The cost to business and the payment industry?
It was reported that a database containing usernames and passwords for almost five million Google accounts emerged on a Russian forum. Google themselves blogged yesterday to say that less than 2% of the username and password combinations might have worked, and their automated anti-hijacking systems would have blocked many of those login attempts. Commenting on this, Lancope CTO, TK Keanini, said:
Introduction
For the interest of the uninitiated and to further appreciate the subject, a definition and brief introduction suffices. Simply put, a foundry is an industrial unit where metal castings are produced, usually in large quantities. The process basically involves casting metals into desired shapes by melting them in a furnace (generally at very high temperatures) and by pouring the metal into a mold and removing the mold material or casting after the metal must have solidified as it cools. Two major types of foundries are: jobbing foundry and captive foundry. The first is a foundry that creates a wide variety of castings, in small quantities for a range of customers. The second type i.e. captive foundry is a foundry that that is wholly incorporated into a larger manufacturing operation. Captive foundry only produces castings for the operation that it is a part of. Commonly processed metals include: aluminum, cast iron, bronze, brass, steel, magnesium, zinc etc.
Google has recently announced that it will beginning penalising sites that use SHA1 certificates that expire during 2016 and after . This is a huge policy change and needs immediate action from businesses, especially when you consider that in September 2014, only 15% of sites use SHA256 certificates.
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