Azure Payments HSM v2 enters public preview as a managed single-tenant service
Microsoft opened a public preview of Azure Payments HSM v2 this week, a managed, single-tenant hardware security module service built specifically for payment workloads: PIN processing, credential issuance, key management, and authentication data protection. The announcement is easy to skim past if you do not work in payments, but the architecture change from v1 is […]
Revolut breach shows how a convincing government email can pull passports and transaction history
Revolut has disclosed a data breach with an uncomfortable mechanism: the company itself handed customer data to the attacker. Someone emailed Revolut while impersonating a government agency, the request passed the company’s checks, and out went identity documents, selfies, and complete transaction histories for an undisclosed number of customers. The story broke via BleepingComputer on […]