We Asked Bodega Workers What They Thought of the Startup That Wants to Make Them Obsolete
Credit to Author: Kaleigh Rogers| Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 17:19:29 +0000
Mom and pop aren’t sweating it.
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Building a Better Cash Register: The Evolution of Retail Technology
Credit to Author: Ernie Smith| Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 13:00:00 +0000
Point-of-sale systems dramatically modernized supply chains and allowed consumers to go cashless, but they were not without their learning curves.
Read moreNIST: In mobile authentication, think hardware, not software
Credit to Author: Evan Schuman| Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 03:00:00 -0700
Retail is in an awkward in-between stage when it comes to online security. In shifting their purchasing to online options, shoppers are using both desktop computers and mobile devices. Had they moved straight to mobile, authentication options would be numerous, including selfies and other biometric authentication such as fingerprints.
But the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) is trying to bolster security and authentication on desktops and mobile devices. It was spurred to tackle its Multifactor Authentication for e-Commerce project because of the realization that increased security in the physical world (with such steps as cards with EMV chips) means that thieves are going to start to focus more on card-not-present transactions.
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