Category: Info Security
Cybersecurity Strategy of the European Union
On 7 February the European Commission announced the European Union’s Cybersecurity Strategy. This strategy is based on five fundamental principles: 1) The EU's core values should apply “as much in the digital as in the physical world”; 2) Protecting fun… more »
Heartfelt authentication
I recently read an article talking about Heart ID and it really caught my attention. This is a new biometric technology based on heartbeat patterns.
This new technique stems from the work of a group of Greek researchers at Toronto University. Two of th… more »
ATM software trends
ATM Marketplace has recently published its report “2012 ATM Software Trends and Analysis”. We have drawn up an infographic summing up some of the results.
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As the graph shows, the main reasons why banks change their ATM s… more »
Interview with the expert. How Checker ATM Security was born
Pedro Celis de la Hoz is a physics graduate from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (1997). His career began in the company Informática El Corte Inglés and then continued in Uno-e, a bank belonging to Grupo BBVA. He joined GMV in 2001 as Head of the Mes… more »
The link between cucumbers and cryptography
Researchers at Tufts University have developed a way of coding secret messages n bacteria.
The idea consists of genetically modifying certain types of bacteria so that they glow with a given color when activated with a certain chemical.
The next step… more »