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Arxan Revolutionizes Security for mCommerce

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BETHESDA, MD--(Marketwired - Sep 29, 2014) - Arxan Technologies, the industry-leading provider of application protection solutions, today announced its security solution for all developers launching mobile apps that include cloud-based payment capabilities. Arxan's innovative and proven approach to secure mCommerce is immediately available for financial institutions, merchants and retailers to help them quickly launch branded value-added services, such as mobile wallet and payment apps. Arxan's security solution is comprised of both mobile application hardening and secure cryptography, which delivers a holistic and robust level of protection.

Google's Host Card Emulation (HCE) is one of the payment schemes that Arxan's solution can protect. HCE permits a phone to emulate a payment card on a device that is enabled with Near Field Communication (NFC) technology without relying on access to a hardware secure element (SE). As of July 2014, 22% of Android smartphone users can leverage this software-based HCE payment capability on their device, indicating a high market opportunity for HCE payment-based solutions.1

If unprotected, HCE-based applications, such as mobile wallet or payment apps, are exposed to significant security risks. These risks include insecure cryptographic key storage that can lead to unauthorized access to sensitive information, fraud and brand damage.

To mitigate risk resulting from the absence of a hardware SE, Arxan's solution provides additional security layers to HCE-based applications. Examples of these include secure cryptography, root device detection, obfuscation and integrity checks within the application. Arxan's easily deployable approach provides companies with an opportunity to gain a competitive advantage based on the strength of security with their mobile apps and the speed with which the app can be deployed.

Arxan's comprehensive software-based security offers the following benefits:

"As the mobile payment landscape is evolving to provide greater value than a traditional credit card, so too must security approaches," said Mike Dager, CEO, Arxan Technologies. "We are committed to providing our mCommerce customers with innovative security solutions that are durable and support scalability. Arxan's proven ability to keep sensitive information safe with its secure cryptography for F500 companies delivers disruptive opportunity for mobile app developers to launch their branded services with confidence."

To learn more about Arxan's innovative approach to secure mCommerce, Arxan's Security Solutions Architect, Winston Bond, will be hosting a webinar on Tuesday, September 30, from 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT. For registration details, please visit: Revolutionary Security for HCE Mobile Payments.

Also, Vince Arneja, Arxan's VP of Product Management, will be providing more information at the Mobile Payment Conference, as a speaker on the industry panel, Keeping Mobile Commerce Secure, on Oct. 7th at 4:15 pm. To meet with Vince at the conference, please email info@arxan.com.

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Julian Assange Does Interview in Hologram Form

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Julian Assange continues to reside in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, but he found time to make a public appearance for an interview about his book When Google Met WikiLeaks. How, you ask? Well, he appeared by hologram.

Thats right, appearing as a hologram is now something that 2Pac, Michael Jackson, and Julian Assange have in common.

Assanges book details a conversation he had back in 2011 with Google chairman Eric Schmidt. In the interview, Assange says that while Google might claim to be a playroom of ideas unlike other companies, they are just a normal company. Albeit one that wants to collect as much information about the world as possible, store it, index it, make predictive models about peoples interests, and use that to sell advertising.

And yes, he made these salient points as a hologram.

You can watch two clips from the event here (the first one ends with a pretty awkward high-five):

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Julian Assange uses hologram to give an interview in the US

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The 43-year-old founder of WikiLeaks spoke at the Nantucket Project on Sunday via hologram He used the futuristic technology to talk about his new book, Google and defend his decision to publish the Chelsea Manning papers Assange has been living in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since 2012, in an attempt to avoid extradition to Sweden on sex assault charges

By Ashley Collman for MailOnline

Published: 22:37 EST, 28 September 2014 | Updated: 07:22 EST, 29 September 2014

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Julian Assange has found a way to escape asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy, and preach his causes, without getting arrested by British authorities.

The infamous founder of WikiLeaks used hologram technology to appear on Sunday for a speech at The Nantucket Project, a Massachusetts conference similar to TED talks.

The 43-year-old Australian native has been able to speak at several events from his self-imposed house arrest thanks to Skype, but Sunday marked the first time he has appeared as a hologram.

The hologram event was organised from inside the Ecuadorian Embassy by London-based British billionaire Alki David, whose company Hologram USA owns the technology which made the transmission possible.

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CloudFlare reveals ‘Universal SSL’: Free, headache-free encryption for websites

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More and more websites are looking to enable SSL encryption to protect their visitors from eavesdroppers and hackers. Now web infrastructure company CloudFlare will make it a bit easier by adding that feature to the free version of its hosting service.

Revelations about government snooping and Googles decision to prioritize sites with encryption turned on in its search results have given SSL a big push.

However, cost and complexity have meant that before Monday fewer than 0.4 percent of websites were encrypted, according to CloudFlare. It aims to boost that with Universal SSL, which works regardless of budget or technical know-how, the company said. The two million sites that today use the free version of CloudFlares service will be the first that are able to take advantage of the feature.

Having encryption may not seem important to a small blog, but its critical to advancing the encrypted-by-default future of the Internet, according to CloudFlare. Every byte thats protected makes life more difficult for those who wish to intercept, throttle, or censor the web, the company said in a blog post on Monday.

For sites that didnt have SSL before, CloudFlare will use its Flexible SSL mode by default. That means traffic from browsers to CloudFlare will be encrypted, but traffic from CloudFlare to a sites server will not. Site owners need to install a certificate on their web servers to encrypt that segment, as well. To help, CloudFlare will publish a blog post with instructions.

A bonus with Universal SSL is that the feature is compatible with SPDY, a protocol used to speed up web traffic by minimizing latency.

As with many free services there are some limitation compared to paid plans. The main one in this case is that Universal SSL only works with modern browsers, which excludes about 20 percent of web requests. To get support for all browsers, users need to sign up for CloudFlare Pro (which costs from $20 per month), Business or Enterprise.

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