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British bank Natwest is trialling the use of a new NFC payment card with a built-in fingerprint scanner. The trial, which will include 200 customers when it begins in mid-April, will allow its participants to make NFC payments (called “contactless” in the UK) without needing to input a PIN or offer a signature. The standard £30 limit for contactless payments will not apply when the fingerprint is used. Currently, anyone can make a contactless payment in the UK by tapping their card on the terminal to make a payment. As a result of this lack of security, a £30 limit is applied to such payments, with retailers requiring you to place your card into the card reader and enter a PIN for more expensive purchases (commonly referred to as the “Chip and PIN” method). Although mobile payments require authentication, customers often find they’re subject to the same £30 limit. The fingerprint data is stored locally on the card, meaning there’s no security information for a hacker to be abl...

The alleged ringleaders of OneCoin, the multi-billion dollar cryptocurrency-fuelled pyramid scheme, have finally been busted. On Friday, US authorities apprehended brother-and-sister duo Konstantin Ignatov and Ruja Ignatova at Los Angeles International Airport over their role in the international blockchain-based scam, reports Bloomberg. Ignatova, the founder of OneCoin, was charged with securities fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering, but as yet is not under arrest. Ignatov is alleged to have taken over OneCoin, and was arrested on a charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. A third suspect, Mark S. Scott (a former partner of a major US law firm Locke Lord), had already been arrested, charged with laundering more than $400 million for OneCoin, primarily through bank accounts in the Republic of Ireland and the Cayman Islands. FBI assistant director-in-charge William Sweeney, explained the allegations in a statement: As we allege, OneCoin was a cryptocurrency existing only in...

Google’s Chrome web browser is extremely popular, with 72% desktop market share in November 2018 according to Statcounter.com figures. Its nearest rival, Mozilla Firefox, languished at 9.1%, with Microsoft Edge at four percent. When Chrome was first launched it used its speed as a marketing position, rendering pages faster than the opposition was enough to get the browser installed on a lot of machines. But Chrome is also customisable and extensible, both in the way it looks and the way it operates, and it’s this, along with the speed, that keeps it on top today. Decent security helps too, of course. Chrome can be slowed down, however, so here we’re going to help you speed it up again, and share some tips on how to get the browser working the way you want it to. Plus, one time-wasting tip! Step-by-step: Delve into Chrome’s settings Google 1. Change the default theme It’s easy to change the way Chrome looks. The Chrome Web Store has thousands of themes, which can be installed ...