Category: Mobile Commerce Security

Security in the mcommerce world is just as important as ecommerce due to most of consumer shopping and surfing will end up on a smartphone. This issue has been coming up a lot with QR code scanning as well as mobile banking trends. Join us as we explore this topic further.

Google to stop geofence warrants by letting users store location data on devices

Stephanie Beck
Geofence warrants - Location Data own device

Law enforcement have been accessing location data stored in massive amounts by tech giants. Google will soon be providing users with the opportunity to store their location data on their devices instead of on its own servers, putting to the end the geofence warrants trend it played a large part in creating. Use of these warrants has recently taken off. This will effectively cease a surveillance practice that has long existed and that has permitted law enforcement such as police to be able to access the company’s massive stores of…

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WhatsApp messaging app enhances mobile security with Android passkey support

Jorge Gonzalez
Messaging app - WhatsApp Security

The popular Meta-owned application announced that it will be adding this new support for Android devices. Meta-owned messaging app WhatsApp has announced that it has launched Android device passkey support, eliminating the requirement for two-factor authentication using SMS. Users will be able to use their fingerprints, face or a PIN to unlock their accounts on their devices. Until now, the two-factor authentication using SMS was the primary security method used by the messaging app. However, according to WhatsApp, it will be gradually rolling out the use of a passkey instead.…

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J.Crew launches fashion app giving 2-day heads up on product launches

QR Code Press
Fashion app - Model on phone

The application is a spinoff of the brand’s Passport loyalty program that began in August 2022. J.Crew is rolling out the next step in its Passport loyalty program that started in August 2022, by now taking a mobile commerce approach with a fashion app that will provide users with a number of shopping advantages. The application first launched on Monday and was based on the brand’s customer behaviors. The fashion app’s inspiration came from the retailer’s customer behaviors, said Derek Yarbrough, J.Crew CMO. In the last year, over two out…

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AI chatbots generate free Windows 11 and Windows 10 Pro keys

John Montgallo
AI Chatbots - ChatGPT use

ChatGPT and Google Bard have been used to unlock the operating systems without paying. Last week, @immasiddtweets tweeted screenshots and a post that said “ChatGPT gives you free Windows 10 Pro keys! And it surprisingly works” after having used AI chatbots to generate the unlock codes. The tweet went viral, showing how @immasiddtweets “tricked” the artificial intelligence into providing the keys. According to the tweet, including the screenshots, @immasiddtweets asked the AI chatbot ChatGPT to behave like his late grandmother, “who would read me Windows 10 Pro keys to fall…

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This social media platform’s ‘security incident’ made private posts public

John Montgallo
Social media platform - Public posting - sharing

Twitter says the event that made private Circle tweets public was “immediately fixed.” In April, users discovered a bug on Twitter that would make public the private tweets by Twitter Circle feature users on the social media platform. Almost a month after the discovery was first reported, the company has now released a comment. According to the social media platform, it told affected users that the exposure that made the private tweets public was due to “a security incident” that occurred earlier in 2023. According to Twitter, the issue was…

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