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The rise of digital payments in India
https://www.rambus.com/blogs/rise-digital-payments-india/Digital payment platforms, such as mobile wallets, payments banks, and electronic authentication, are on an upward surge in India. The volume of digital transactions in the country grew from 32% in 2013-2014 to 62% in 2017-2018. IDC Financial Insights estimates that the percentage of transactions at Point of Sale (PoS) will exceed transactions at ATM […]
Spectre: How reverse-engineering a microprocessor revealed a fundamental flaw
http://www.computerweekly.com/news/450432815/Spectre-How-reverse-engineering-a-microprocessor-revealed-a-fundamental-flaw#new_tabOn 3 January 2018, Google’s Project Zero reported that a technique used to improve the performance of modern microprocessors could be abused to efficiently leak information, leading to what it described as “arbitrary virtual memory read vulnerabilities across local security boundaries”.
NFC, QR Codes, In-app and beyond…
https://www.rambus.com/blogs/nfc-qr-codes-in-app-and-beyond/‘Mobile payments’ is a broad term. As the ecosystem has developed, various new technologies have emerged to change the way we act and transact in-store. Integrating new with the old Some mobile payment technologies are focused on seamlessly connecting the mobile device to the existing payments infrastructure. NFC leading the way After an uncertain start, […]
Rambus at CES 2018: Running with Cybertrust’s Hamon
https://www.rambus.com/blogs/rambus-ces-2018-running-cybertrusts-hamon/Rambus and Cybertrust Corporation, a security services company based in Tokyo, will introduce a new user experience through the Rambus “CryptoManager™ IoT Security Service” and Cybertrust’s “Secure IoT Platform®” (SIOTP) for a wearable IoT total service “hamon®” provided by Mitsufuji Corporation. The hamon will be exhibited at Mitsufuji’s booth (Halls A-D, Booth 45637) during CES […]
Put your money where your mouth is: Financial institutions and mobile payments
https://www.rambus.com/blogs/put-money-mouth-financial-institutions-mobile-payments/The adoption of digital wallets, according to a Goldman Sachs analyst, has been “underwhelming to date by nearly every objective standard.” While Apple Pay is the dominant digital wallet leader in the US, accounting for 90% of all contactless mobile payments, it is still struggling to gain real traction in the United States. According to […]
Is this the year ‘weaponised’ AI bots do battle?
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-42559967#new_tabTechnology of Business has garnered opinions from dozens of companies on what they think will be the dominant global tech trends in 2018. Artificial intelligence (AI) dominates the landscape, closely followed, as ever, by cyber-security. But is AI an enemy or an ally?
Siloing security: A response to Meltdown and Spectre
https://www.rambus.com/blogs/siloing-security-response-meltdown-spectre/Earlier this week, Jann Horn of Google’s Project Zero published a detailed blog post titled “Reading privileged memory with a side-channel.” The post confirmed that CPU data cache timing can be exploited to efficiently leak information out of mis-speculated execution. This could lead to – at worst – arbitrary virtual memory read vulnerabilities across local […]
The importance of PCI Express 4.0 in the data center
https://www.rambus.com/blogs/importance-pci-express-4-0-data-center/Niraj Mathur, VP of high speed interface products at Rambus, recently penned an article for Semiconductor Engineering that explores the importance of PCI Express 4.0 in the data center. Read our primer: Rambus launched PCI Express 5 » “Modern CPUs rely on the following primary interconnect types: memory interconnects, primarily supported by DDR4 today; high speed […]
Europe’s answer for IoT Security: Baseline security recommendations
https://www.rambus.com/blogs/europes-answer-iot-security-baseline-security-recommendations/While politicians in the United States have been discussing measures to tackle the oft-ignored but nevertheless growing issue of Internet of Things (IoT) security, similar measures are being discussed across the pond. On November, 2017, the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security, formerly named the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA), released […]
Cryogenics and accelerators push DRAM limits
https://www.rambus.com/blogs/cryogenics-accelerators-push-dram-limits/Last month, Semiconductor Engineering’s Kevin Fogarty wrote an article that explores how major industry players are pushing the limits of DRAM. As Fogarty observes, the access bandwidth of DRAM-based computer memory has improved by a factor of 20x over the past two decades – with capacity increasing 128x during the same period. In contrast, latency […]
