Mikael Ricknäs
London Correspondent
Mikael Ricknäs reports on telecommunications, cellular, and mobile technology for the IDG News Service, and is based in London.
E-paper display gives payment cards a changing security code
The technology, from Oberthur Technologies, will be tested by two banks in France
ARM acqusition highlights quest to embed IoT security
Chip makers such as ARM and Intel are working to improve security in software and hardware
People are increasingly worried about privacy, say legal protections fall short
Technology has had a negative impact on privacy, said a majority of those questioned in a recent global survey
CloudFlare aims to simplify SSL encryption with free service
Having encryption is critical to advancing a more secure future of the Internet, according to CloudFlare
Software bugs most common cause for mobile Internet outages, study says
The outages affected 1.4 million user connections on average per incident
Security spending gets boost from mobile, social and cloud, says Gartner
Worldwide spending will increase by almost 8 percent this year
British spy agency scanned for vulnerable systems in 32 countries, German paper reveals
Heise Online reveals top-secret details about the GCHQ's 'Hacienda' program
Amazon protects its virtual desktops with two-factor authentication
The company's WorkSpaces service can be used with hardware tokens from Gemalto
AT&T wants to improve payment card fraud prevention with phone geolocation
The operator expects to make a new service available to enterprise customers later this year
German researchers hack Galaxy S5 fingerprint login
The integration with Paypal makes the weakness of Samsung's implementation extra serious
Skype Slowly Restoring Service to Users
Skype continues to recover after an outage caused by problems with its peer-to-peer interconnection system. The latest estimates say that 10 million users are now online, according to a blog post