Martin Rupp (guest)

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Postbank Master Key Breach: Why Strong Key Management is Essential

In the last couple of months, facts regarding breaches that occurred during December 2018 at PostBank, the national postal bank operator of South...

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Tokenization in Banking and Financial Services

Tokenization is a generalized concept of a cryptographic hash. It means representing something by a symbol (‘token’).

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Why a Banking Key Management System Must Support Atalla Key Blocks

Invented by Mohamed Atalla, the Atalla key block is the root of all key blocks. All over the globe, hundreds of millions of financial transactions...

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Why Native Code Obfuscation Techniques is Essential for Mobile Apps

In the mobile environment, source code is often distributed without enough security. Programs compiled as bytecode, such as the ones developed for...

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10 Anti-debugging Techniques for Mobile Banking and Payment Apps

In the mobile environment, while debuggers are legal and legitimate development tools, hackers can also use them to reverse mobile banking and...

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Addressing HTTPS Vulnerabilities in Mobile Banking and Payment Apps

Here we describe some of the HTTPS vulnerabilities in the context of mobile banking and their countermeasures.

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ANSI X9.24-1-2017: Key Distribution 

Key distribution is perhaps the most important and crucial aspect of the ANSI X9.24-1-2017 part 1 standard. But first, let us explain what...

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Secure Connectivity for Mobile Banking and Payment Apps: HTTPS Tunneling

In this article, we will describe what HTTPS tunneling is and how it has been used in mobile banking and payment applications. We also look at some...

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Access Token Protection: Secure Connectivity for Mobile Apps

In this article, we introduce the role that access tokens play in mobile banking applications and provide recommendations on how to secure these...

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