Microcontroller provider Atmel announced that its smart card business located in Rousset, France and East Kilbride, UK is up for sale, pending a comprehensive review of alternatives for its business. The company also announced that it intends to discontinue sale discussions for its customer specific products and aerospace businesses. Atmel’s sale of its wafer fabrication […]

ImageWare Systems Inc. and Vista LifeSciences announced the formation of a partnership to offer clients secure biometric identification for electronic medical records. Vista LifeSciences’ products are used by the U.S. Department of Defense. Vista LifeSciences is the provider of automated neurocognitive assessment technology to the United States Department of Defense that has been used to […]

The January meeting of the Government Smart Card Interagency Advisory Board (IAB) was recently held in Washington D.C. FIPS201.com was on hand to cover the event and has provided, as a service to the IAB and the smart card community, an audio recording of the presentations. Click on the link below to access a list […]

UC Berkley had its share of security breaches in 2009. In August, hackers gained access to private student records from the Graduate School of Journalism and in May they gained access to around 160,000 students’ personal information from University Health Services, according to The Daily Californian. Electronic information including students’ social security numbers, driver’s license […]

An increased demand for converged mobile broadband services has boosted the annual revenue for cloud-based mobile applications. A recent study by Juniper Research estimated revenue to reach $9.5 billion by 2014. Research also shows growth due to the releasing of HTML 5, the Smart Card Web Server and other technology enablers. Consumer applications are to […]

U.S. Bank’s ReliaCard Visa and PayID cards have won Paybefore Awards in the Best Government Program category and in the Most Innovative Program category, respectively. U.S. Bank will now vie for best-in-category distinction for both awards, which will be announced during the Paybefore Awards ceremony on Feb. 22 at the Prepaid Expo USA. The U.S. […]

NXP Semiconductors announced that its MIFARE Plus contactless smart card CPU IC (MF1PLUSx0y1) has been awarded Common Criteria EAL 4+ certification by the German Federal Office for Information Security. NXP has also announced the successful performance of MIFARE Plus in independent security reviews conducted by cryptography experts from the Ruhr-Universität in Germany and the Katholieke […]