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Mobile Money in the Australasian Region - A Technical Security Perspective

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While mobile money originated in Africa, its success has led to a spread around the world. This paper is the first to focus specifically on its uptake in the region of Australasia; we give a brief description of the current situation of mobile money usage in each of eight countries within this region. Despite the convenience of mobile money systems, their underlying technologies are susceptible to many threats associated with insecure Wi-Fi communication. We detail such threats and discuss possible countermeasures.

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  1. HCL Australia Services Pty. Ltd., Sydney, Australia

    Swathi Parasa

  2. Deakin University, Geelong, Australia

    Lynn Margaret Batten

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Parasa, S., Batten, L.M. (2016). Mobile Money in the Australasian Region - A Technical Security Perspective. In: Batten, L., Li, G. (eds) Applications and Techniques in Information Security. ATIS 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 651. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2741-3_13

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