MasterCard to launch Selfie Pay verification for online payments and e-commerce

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Toronto - MasterCard Canada showed off their enhanced two-factor authorization feature called Selfie Pay today which is being launched as  a pilot for corporate card users and which is expected to be made available to customers of the Bank of Montreal and other participating banks in the Summer.

Previously called 'MasterCard Identity Check,' the service leverages exisiting smartphone technologies like the fingerprint sensors on Android devices as well as Touch ID on recent Apple iPhones as well as the front-facing cameras to help confirm a person's identity in the event of online purchases.

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YouTube for iOS gets Slide Over and Split View support

YouTube app gets a significant update on iOS for iPad users. The video streaming app gets Slide Over and Split View support. As a refresher, SlideOver lets you check an app briefly by sliding it onto the screen, while Split View lets you run two apps side-by-side. Of course the usual caveats apply with Slide Over works with Apple tablets that extend as far back as the original iPad Air and iPad mini 2. Meanwhile, Split View works with the iPad Air 2, iPad mini 4, and both iPad Pro models. Unfortunately, Google didn’t implement iOS 9’s Picture in Picture feature so you won’t be able to watch YouTube videos while using another app or while you’re on the iPad home screen.

Source: The Verge | Download: Apple App Store (Free)

Report finds one out of five employees would sell work passwords

For today’s disconcerting news, a new report from an Austin, Texas-based security firm finds that incentivized or disgruntled employees don’t find it hard to sell their work passwords. According to SailPoint, one in five employees will give in to this and they won’t even ask for that big of an amount with some willing to give it away for less than $1,000 USD. Another one of the findings of the report is about two-thirds of employees share passwords and credentials with coworkers with 16 percent only using a single password for all their credentials. Companies aren’t good either with locking a former employees’s account after letting them go. The report says 42 percent of those who responded could access their corporate accounts and data even after termination.

Source: SailPoint | Via: The Next Web

Google tipped to be developing an iOS third-party keyboard with search feature

The search giant Google is supposedly working on a third-party keyboard for iOS users. It will reportedly have things like gesture-based input and a built-in Web search feature. The gesture-based typing is said to follow in the vein of popular keyboard apps like Swype and SwiftKey. The keyboard will also sport a Google logo that when you tap executes a web search and dedicated search buttons for pictures and GIFs, which are believed to be routed through Google Image search. Whether that search happens within the keyboard interface or not is unknown. Apple is particularly strict with products it deems will affect the UI, which in turn could affect the iOS experience. The unnamed keyboard project has said to be in the work for months and is being tested by select Google employees. There isn’t a specific timeline for release though.

Source: Apple Insider