Cerritos College, a Norwalk, Calif.-based community college, is considering adding another magnetic stripe to the student IDs, according to TalonMarks.com, the student newspaper at the two-year institution. The additional stripe will enable ATM withdrawals and deposits in the food court. Read the full story here.   

Cubic Transportation Systems Inc. is providing new capabilities for the Cubic designed Tri-Reader to enable an all-in-one reader that will process bank cards, prepaid cards and smart card-enabled mobile phones through a software development and licensing agreement with ViVOtech, a provider of point-of-sale readers for contactless and Near Field Communication mobile phone payments. Under the […]

The Smart Card Alliance will present a workshop on NFC-enabled mobile payments and applications at International CTIA WIRELESS 2009, Friday April 3rd from 10:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Room N262 (North Hall, Level 2). The session is designed to give attendees an understanding of the technology and security […]

Biometric Services International announced the availability of its latest update of published and emerging biometric standards. Seven new and/or updated standards were published since the last update in August 2008, bringing the total number of published standards to 80. The report details these, along with another 80+ emerging standards under consideration. The exchange of fingerprint, […]

Collis announced the release of the Collis Card Image Editor; a new product designed to support both Issuers and Acquirers with card and terminal testing. The Collis Card Image Editor is a tool for editing EMV card data. It provides an editing functionality of data from a real EMV Card. It can be used to […]

Credit card fraud is on the rise in the UK despite deploying Chip and PIN five years ago, according to a report in The Independent. The latest figured points to 600 million pounds of credit card fraud in 2008, compared to 535 million pounds in 2007. Organized criminals have switched from card present fraud to […]

A Government Accountability Office investigator was able to use false identities to fool U.S. State Department and Post Office workers and have a passport issued under a different name, according to a report from the Associated Press. In all the investigator made four attempts to receive passport under fake names. With one, the investigator used […]

ActivIdentity Corp., a provider of strong authentication and credential management, announced that Dutch bank SNS Bank has selected ActivIdentity’s solution to secure access to the bank’s corporate facilities and IT resources. Fifty percent of the bank’s workforce requires access to the institution’s trading system, compelling the use of strong authentication and audit trail structure to […]

by David C. Wyld, Southeastern Louisiana University There is no setting in the private or public sectors where a verifiable “chain of custody” is more essential – or more lacking – than the handling of evidence in criminal cases. In the United States, the legal system is dependent on the proper handling of all forms […]

By Andy Williams, Associate Editor Television shows like HBO’s The Wire and Homicide: Life on the Street depict Baltimore as a gritty city. While the shows are fiction, crime is a real concern and Johns Hopkins University is testing a system that detects gunshots in an effort to help keep the campus safe. The gunshot […]