Retail Breaches as Catalysts for Action: Breach could have positive long-term implications if they, indeed, serve as catalysts for change. The migration toward enhanced payments technology – chip and PIN – could get a boost from all the attention to payments system vulnerabilities that the breaches generated. Congress is considering how to spur more cyberintelligence information sharing and whether more regulatory oversight of payments security is needed. The FIDO Alliance is spearheading the launch of an international authentication protocol that would ultimately remove the need for usernames and passwords.”]
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