HTC and Trustonic Offer Greater Security to Mobile Bitcoin Wallets
Trustonic, the leading provider of Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) for smart devices, on Monday announced a collaboration with HTC. According to their press release, this partnership will bring new capabilities to HTC devices that are designed to simplify user authentication while offering better protection against threats posed by malicious software. Also read: Hardbit Bitcoin Wallet - An Offline and Secure Cold Storage Unit. Security measures often bring with them extra steps for verification, which makes security inconvenient. Trustonic said the partnership would bring with it....
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A new secure mobile payment solution for Android will be showcased at the Mobile World Congress, March 2 - 5 in Barcelona, Spain. The new payment app developed by Rivetz and other partners - an Android alternative to Apple Pay with Bitcoin support - will be available in the second quarter of 2015 and is compatible with over 350 million existing Android devices, including Samsung smartphones. Demonstrations on a Samsung Galaxy 4 smartphone will be held daily at the Samsung partner booth (Hall 8.1), Trustonic booth (Hall 7, Stand 7G81), and at the Intercede booth (Hall 7, Stand 7B81). "We....
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