ING Bank Experiments With Voice Verification, Blockchain Authentication Far More Secure

ING Bank Experiments With Voice Verification, Blockchain Authentication Far More Secure

Security is a key element of importance when it comes to storing funds. Regardless of whether a user keeps funds in their bank account, in cash, on their mobile device or in Bitcoin, without top notch security, there is always a threat of someone stealing money from them. Dutch bank ING thinks they have found the solution to making PC banking more secure, by letting customers use their voice to access their bank accounts. Improving bank security is not an easy task, as many systems have been tried, altered and redesigned over the past few years. To this very date, most customers accessPC....


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