EMV 3DS 2.3 enhances security and fraud prevention across e-commerce channels

Global technical body EMVCo has enhanced the EMV 3-D Secure (3DS) Specifications to improve the consumer experience and fraud fighting capabilities for issuers, acquirers and merchants across e-commerce channels and devices. The latest version, EMV 3DS… Continue reading EMV 3DS 2.3 enhances security and fraud prevention across e-commerce channels

Fastly increases WebAssembly contributions to support secure-by-design software ecosystem

Fastly has expanded its investments in the WebAssembly ecosystem, reinforcing its belief that this emerging technology unlocks a more performant, secure, and flexible future for delivering websites and applications. In pursuit of this collaborative mis… Continue reading Fastly increases WebAssembly contributions to support secure-by-design software ecosystem

FIDO2: Authenticate easily with phishing-resistant security

The FIDO Alliance and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) have achieved a standards milestone in the global effort to bring simpler yet stronger web authentication to users around the world. The W3C has advanced Web Authentication (WebAuthn), a collabo… Continue reading FIDO2: Authenticate easily with phishing-resistant security

Digital Rights Advocates Call for Investigation Around W3C’s DRM Extension

Digital rights advocates are again pleading with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to reconsider standardizing DRM in Encrypted Media Extensions, a draft specification that would ultimately feed into HTML 5.

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World Standard Organizations to Release Entirely Reworked Standards

After months of cross-disciplinary meetings, some of the largest professional associations just announced their plans to submit an entire standard set for engineers with egos too fragile to accept design criticism. The Special Snowflake Standard or S2 (in compliance with Godwin’s law) ensures compromised mechanical and electrical integrity by ignoring proper design methodologies for more fluid definitions of success. The Special Snowflake Standard allows the modern engineer greater flexibility in avoiding self-improvement in their field while maintaining an advanced level of apparent competency.

The Standard follows an ingenious randomly generated naming scheme to hinder cross-checking and look-up. The honesty …read more

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