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Brother's latest INKvestment all-in-one printers are aimed at the remote workforce.

FEITIAN has been developing security key and smart card devices to achieve the highest standards of hardware-based passwordless authentication and has now become the world’s first vendor of its kind to achieve the FIDO biometric component certification, an essential requirement to qualify for FIDO level 3 and higher certification.

Hardware authentication security key provider Yubico today announced the general availability of its next-generation FIPS security keys, the YubiKey 5 FIPS series. This is the industry’s first set of multi-protocol security keys with FIDO2 and WebAuthn support to receive FIPS 140-2 validation.

Researchers at ETH Zurich, a university for science and technology studies, have used a man-in-the-middle attack to bypass the use of a PIN code by Mastercard payment cards, and also those from Maestro.

ACMI, Australia's national museum of screen culture, has reopened after at $40 million redevelopment.

Quest Payments, an Australian-owned and Melbourne-based technology provider, has received approval from the payments regulator Australian Payments Network (AusPayNet) for its Tap-to-Phone payments solution, Airpay TAP, which was launched in October last year.

There are things we all know we should do; floss our teeth, phone our mothers, wear clean underwear … and protect our online identity with unique passwords and authentication security. If you’re not doing these things it’s time to start and Yubico can help with the latter.

The OPPO A53 is another one of those nicely built 4G smartphones to emerge from the belly of B.B.K. Electronics, with plenty of premium features but a price that will not break the bank.

Hardware authentication security key provider Yubico has secured its first YubiEnterprise subscription deal in the Asia-Pacific, a regional council in Queensland, on a three-year deal.

Digital payments firm Visa is using the results from a survey about 'tap to phone' payments, a form of contactless payments, to call for the use of such payments to be widely accepted in Australia.

Whisky and gin producer Old Kempton Distillery is applying NFC tags to bottles in order to make life difficult for counterfeiters and to improve communication with customers.

We recently spoke to Mark Hodgson, head of Samsung Pay in Australia, who shared his thoughts on the convenience of mobile wallets; in the meantime, Samsung has announced 1.3 billion Samsung Pay transactions.

Available for compatible iPhones and Androids, the FreeStyle LibreLink app enables FreeStyle Fibre users to monitor glucose levels directly via smartphones.

With mobile wallets set to pass two billion users next year, and QR code payments soaring in China despite challenges elsewhere, who will cash in and win the digital wallet war?

The Apple Pay delay each day for Bendigo Bank customers now sees Samsung Pay in play, in what is great news for Samsung smartphone and smartwatch owners who bank with Bendigo.

Tap2App lets merchants use NFC-enabled smartphones as credit and debit card readers without plug-ins or wireless hardware, as seen with competing devices, and it is being available first in Australia and NZ.

Armourcell uses NFC energy to deliver NFC jamming technology to protect data, complementing Armourcard, the first and only battery-powered RFID jamming card that creates a force field of protection for credit card, debit cards and passports.

Samsung has added 38 new banks and credit unions to those who can use its Samsung Pay facility, allowing Australian Samsung Galaxy A5/A7 and S6 or later users to come closer to ditching their wallets.

Samsung’s mobile payment solution, Samsung Pay, has launched in Australia with American Express and Citibank.

With watches, wristbands, NFC handsets, payment cards and contactless payments all the rage and only growing, reaching nearly $100 billion annually by 2018 seems assured.