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Last year, Microsoft Corp.’s Azure security team detected suspicious activity in the cloud computing usage of a large retailer: One of the company’s administrators, who usually logs on from New York, was trying to gain entry from Romania. And no, the admin wasn’t on vacation. A hacker had broken in.

Consumers are stuck using outdated or easily compromised means of proving their identities in a world where banks and retailers need something better. Mastercard and Microsoft are teaming up to take on this monumental challenge.

The upgrades will be complex, but necessary due to growing malware and cyberattack threats, writes MVP Financial Equipment’s Mark D. Smith.

The payments company released a platform made up of nine B2B networks and powered by Microsoft’s Azure.

Microsoft is the latest to try to help a big retailer jettison cashiers — and the latest to discover how hard that is.

January 14, 2020 seems like a long way away. But there are less than two years before the Windows 7 cut-off date hits; and time flies when it comes to ATM upgrades, writes Paul Albright, executive vice president of Outsource ATM.

Microsoft will use the Stripe Connect platform to enable hundreds of millions of Outlook users to immediately pay invoices and bills received via email in more than 135 countries.

A few handshakes among a small group of Silicon Valley techies are presenting the best chance yet to wipe out passwords in favor of modern identity protection.

While the West Coast still reigns as the epicenter of technology development, the Detroit area has quietly emerged as a proving ground for digital mortgage innovations.

The CUSO hopes to create an industry-leading data platform that helps credit unions compete with fintechs and banks.