In recent years, there has been significant consumer demand for instant payments through their mobile phones. Unfortunately, the security aspect of mobile NFC payments has been ignored and mobile wallet theft is real threat.

Timur Yunusov is a Security Expert in the area of payment security and application security, one of the organizers of Payment Village. He has authored extensive research in the field of payment security. He regularly speaks at conferences and has previously spoken at CanSecWest, Black Hat USA, Black Hat Europe, HackInTheBox, Nullcon, NoSuchCon, Hack In Paris, ZeroNights and Positive Hack Days.

We link up and talk about mobile wallet security, platform safeguards, his vulnerability research, privacy implications and how he is bringing awareness of the issue.

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