Editor Zack Martin examines the missing links in protecting and authenticating online identity for social networking sites, especially for minors. With sites like MySpace and Facebook having millions of users, some younger than ten years old, people want to talk about how to protect the children. But at what cost? And will strong authentication ever […]

Evaluating the reality of the hack from his perspective and industry insiders In this episode, the publicized Mifare Crypto-1 hack is examined. Interviews with the researcher that uncoverd the alleged vulnerability, Karsten Nohl, as well as NXP representative Manuel Albers and Smart Card Alliance’s Randy Vanderhoof delve into the topic from all sides. Albers reports […]

The UK-based De-La-rue has won an $18 million tender to work on Rwanda’s identity card project. The company which brought in sophisticated equipments to finish the work is now capturing biometric data in which a digital picture, electronic fingerprint and signature are included. The government has registered 5.3 million Rwandans above 16 years who will […]

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of State announced the final rule for the land and sea portion of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative. The WHTI final rule requires travelers to present a passport or other approved secure document denoting citizenship and identity for all land and sea travel into the […]

Commercialization of first-to-market ICT DisplayCard, a wafer-thin, one-time-passcode card for dual-factor authentication, to be spotlighted at security industry’s premier forum, the RSA Conference and Expo Innovative Card Technologies’ DisplayCard, a security device for e-banking, e-commerce and data access, is being deployed by 11 leading financial institutions and enterprises in the U.S. and internationally. Five of […]

The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana, which was formally launched on the 1st of October last year, is scheduled to begin operation tomorrow. The smart card scheme was created to provide smart card based cashless health insurance coverage upto Rs.30,000 for all the BPL families in the unorganized sector for the next five years. The Central […]

Six years after it began testing a payment device that attaches to a key chain, American Express is discontinuing its “Express Pay” fob that was created for convenience. The fob is one of many new payment methods introduced by the credit card industry in recent years. According to the Wall Street Journal, credit card companies […]

It has been rumored that the Citigroup organization has an NFC mobile phone under development that it plans to brand with the Citi logo. The phone will utilize an NFC payment application developed by Citi on the handsets, according to a report filed with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. The report, submitted in March, clearly […]

Purchase jumpstarts payment processor’s entry into the college and university market By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor The recently announced purchase of campus card supplier General Meters Corp. (GMC) by payments processors, Heartland Payment Systems, has likely delivered the resources the small company needed to stay competitive. Heartland’s campus card appetite was first whetted with its […]

HID Global has teamed with Dynamic Card Solutions (DCS) to launch the CardWizard FCP 20/20 instant issuance financial card printing system. The system is aimed at banks, credit unions and retailers for on-site instant issuance of debit, credit and prepaid cards. HID’s line of Fargo’s HDP functionality offers superior card image quality, essential in the […]