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Yet another hack – passwords (and storing them) fail again

After the LinkedIn debacle, it’s depressing but not entirely surprising to see yet further reports of large-scale hacks, this time of Yahoo! losing 400,000 usernames and passwords to anonymous hackers. It seems amazing to us, working as we do in the security industry, that the passwords were stored in plaintext with absolutely no form of […]

Gearing up for Windows 8

We have a long-standing partnership with Microsoft and work to ensure our solutions are fully compatible with all Windows Operating Systems.  We recently participated in the Microsoft TechEd conference in Orlando, Florida, where we showcased the Gemalto one-time Windows logon with Direct Access on a Windows 8 tablet.  Gemalto pre-sales and software engineers, Matthias Büchner […]

Voice over LTE matters to operators

We have previously blogged about the challenges that LTE still faces, despite the general agreement being that LTE provides a great opportunity for operators. At the same event, the recent LTE Conference in Barcelona, as well as seeing the challenges, we also saw one key theme emerging that can demonstrate just how important LTE is […]

NFC Solutions Summit: What will drive consumer demand for NFC?

Yesterday was the first day of the NFC Solutions Summit 2012 in San Francisco, and we heard from executives at MasterCard, Sony, and Intel about their plans for NFC. One of the questions everyone was trying to answer is: “how will we get consumers to use it?” A great question, because as we all know, […]

Just another word or two – passphrases vs passwords

We have blogged many miles of space about the dangers of protecting your business assets with a simple username and password solution. Now there is a new trend using passphrases as a beefed up type of authentication. The problem is, there’s not much meat to this solution. Passphrases are basically a group of dictionary words […]

Where was mobile marketing at Mobile World Congress?

You can cough Jonathan McDonald, because, at first glance, there wasn’t much news announced on mobile marketing this year at Mobile World Congress. That’s not to say there wasn’t any activity, it was just very similar to previous years. For example: There was the same App Planet space with the same booths (Velti, BuzzCity, .mobi, […]