Masabi will be at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Monday 11th to Tuesday 12th February in the Mobile Innovation Marketplace. If you want to take the opportunity to meet us, at the venue or afterwards, then drop an email or SMS me on +44 7788 895 894. Ben
After the recent discovery of a potential back-door in a NIST approved random number generator, I thought it would be timely to state clearly that we do not use the generator scheme involved, but a more straightforward AES based random number generator, which does not fall prey to the suspicious curves. Why do we care [...]
NO RECRUITING AGENTS! (I really mean this, I will be very rude to any recruiter that calls, you have been warned.) Candidate must have Java experience, but doesn’t necessarily need mobile experience. Variety of work, young team, exciting world-changing projects and located in the heart of London’s trendy South Bank, close to the culinary delights [...]
We’re delighted to announce that Masabi’s EncryptME won the security category at the IET’s annual Innovation in Engineering Awards. Ben Whitaker, our head of security development, received the award from TV personality and science enthusiast Johnny Ball and Lance Howarth of ARM at an awards ceremony on Tuesday night. The security category was sponsored by [...]
Masabi will be at Cartes, the International Identity and Credit Cards show in Paris next week on 14th and 15th November. If you are interested in 2FA, digital identity, card fraud, e-commerce fraud, mobile security, mobile banking or any of the other things we love (such as mobile payments and ticketing), come and have a [...]
In this post I will describe the need for Two Factor Authentication (2FA), the problems with existing 2FA, , and some of the emerging approaches to introduce stronger authentication methods – in particular, the opportunity to use mobile technology to avoid the hardware costs and introduce much stronger two channel protection. Some people might start [...]
Two Factor Authentication systems have come under fire recently from hackers and researchers for a number of drawbacks and vulnerabilities: Man-in-the-middle attacks are being successfully used against Banks using 2FA Reports of more than 20% of Hardware tags are lost or broken Expensive – and cumbersome for consumers PIN codes can still be stolen by [...]
Mobile ticketing, m-commerce, secure messaging, corporate applications, government communications, e-money, the list goes on of things that would be great to do on mobile – as long as they really were secure. So, security on our phones, and we’d like to use publicly endorsed standards – 10 out of 10 security experts prefer it and [...]
Money Talks! Have you ever sat at a mobile conference listening to a speaker and thinking ‘Okay, but how can we make money out of this’? 12th September 2007 I’ll be at Gonvile and Caius College in Cambridge giving a presentation about: Our experiences rolling out mobile applications with financial transactions in them Dealing with [...]