Philippines, Vietnam and Brunei to create QR code payment strategy

QR code payment - Philippines, Vietnam and Brunei flags

The arrangement across the ASEAN region is partly intended to reduce dependence on the US dollar. Philippines, Vietnam and Brunei have announced that they intend to join with other significant Southeast Asian economies in a decision to create a cross-border QR code payment system that will encourage the use of their local currencies instead of having to rely on the US dollar when shopping across each others’ borders. Several other countries have launched similar strategies or have agreed to develop them. For instance, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia have already…

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Top US energy company customers targeted in QR code phishing scam

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Over 1,000 emails were issued with security-related lures and containing malicious barcodes. Cyberattackers took aim at a major US energy company with emails including a malicious QR code and a massive phishing campaign seeking to obtain the recipient’s Microsoft credentials. The massive and highly misleading campaign was first discovered in May by Cofense. The email scam campaign used image attachments in PNG format as well as redirect links associated with well-known business applications such as Microsoft Bing, Salesforce and CloudFlare’s Web3 services. They included an embedded QR code that functioned…

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NGC uses hologram QR code to boost anti-counterfeiting

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The Numismatic Guaranty Company has introduced the design as part of a new high-security program. The Numismatic Guaranty Company (NGC) has introduced a new QR code with a high-security hologram as a new component of its strategy for fighting counterfeiting and to make it safer for customers to trust in shopping for NGC-certified medals, coins and tokens. The holograms and quick response barcodes will also be combined with numerical security codes. By working the holograms, QR code and numerical security codes together, the combination becomes unique to the specific collectable…

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QR code scans may soon work for Nearby Share

QR code - file Sharing

Users might soon be able to scan barcodes to be able to share files with others in person. The Nearby Share feature on Android devices will soon make it possible to share files with other people with QR code scans. The feature makes it easy to share files and links with other Android devices, Chromebooks and Windows PCs. To make it work, all users need to do is select what they want to send, select the share button, and choose the Nearby Share option from within the share sheet. If…

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Google Wallet is finally adding QR code scans for payments

QR code payment with phone

Users of phones without NFC technology will now be able to use the app to complete purchases. Google Wallet has announced that it will be letting users without near field communication (NFC) technology-enabled phones to use QR code scans to make payments instead. This will make it much easier for users without NFC to be able to make mobile payments. By using a QR code, users will be able to simply scan the barcode a merchant displays. All that is needed is their smartphone camera (and the Google Wallet app).…

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