Lowell Adkins, executive director of the National Association of Campus Card Users, has just one word for those attending–or thinking of attending–the organization’s annual meeting in March: Disney. But he’s not talking about the Magic Kingdom, or EPCOT, or MGM, although those certainly provide nice incentives for bringing the family. No, it’s Disney as in […]

With the U.S. government turning into the biggest customer for smart card technology–thanks to a huge push from President Bush–the Smart Card Alliance’s fourth annual smart cards in government conference in Washington, D.C. is coming at an ideal time. Officially titled Smart Cards in eGovernment 2005, the session kicks off March 8 with a pre-conference […]

Software developers looking to piggyback on Microsoft’s .NET framework to provide two factor authentication for their clients need look no further than France-based Axalto’s new .NET smart cards. This marks the first availability of .NET smart cards in the world, and the first customer will be Microsoft itself. Diane Harvey, Director of Business Development for […]

Like the old Greyhound bus slogan, “Leave the driving to us,” many universities offering campus card payments at off-campus merchants are finding it more cost effective and efficient to let someone else handle that side of the business. Universities, after all, aren’t merchant acquirers or payment processing companies. And when they have a company like […]

Add Bioscrypt to the list of companies involved in the Transporation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) project. Prime contractor, BearingPoint, selected Bioscrypt’s fingerprint verification technology to identify workers in the ongoing trial phase of the TWIC program. Other biometric providers-including SAFLINK and Daon-are also involved in the TWIC trial phase project. US Department of Homeland Security […]

SuperCom announced that a European Government has contracted the company to deploy a biometric and contactless visa issuance system in the countries embassies. The system is said to be fully ICAO-compliant. SuperCom to Provide Cutting-Edge Biometric Visa System to European Government – Project’s First Stage, valued at $500,000 has commenced – New York, NY, and […]

Contactless payment acceptance and multiapplication support are among the strenghts being touted by Hypercom’s new Optimum L4100 POS terminal. According to Pete Schuddekopf, Hypercom’s VP Media and Analyst Relations, the L4100 can accept both ISO 14443 Type A and B contactless technologies and initial, though undisclosed, customers are currently using the device in the field. […]

The Open Security Exchange, an industry working group focused on the convergence of physical and logical security, has created an end-user council to help guide the organization’s efforts. The initial four members have been named with up to six more slots to be filled with security practioners from different industries. The starting lineup consists of […]

More than 30,000 student and staff records were potentially compromised during a hack of the campus ID card database at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Though the school had recently completed the transition from Social Security Numbers to a unique identifier, the SSNs remained in the card system database and thus may have been […]

Cyptography Research asks chip or card manufacturers to pay for use of its patented security measures In the late 1990s, a scare tore through the smart card community when the media began running articles attacking the security of the cards and calling into question the vulnerability of chip card-enabled systems. The threat had a very […]