Campus administrators and faculty are not immune to the email plague of phishing. That became evident at the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine (UCSF) this week when a physician was fooled into revealing a username and password to hackers. An official looking email made to look like it was sent by […]

Two-factor authentication isn’t always enough as fraudsters have found vulnerabilities in some of these system, according to a report from Gartner Inc. Trojan-based, man-in-the-browser attacks have evaded strong two-factor authentication, enabled through one-time password tokens. Other strong authentication factors, such as those using chip cards and biometric technology that rely on browser communications, can also […]

SMART Association Inc. announced that Wyckoff Heights Medical Center of Brooklyn, New York, will implement a health care smart card program. The program, slated to issue more than 110,000 smart cards to Wyckoff’s patients and will start deployment in the first quarter of 2010. Over the next two years, patients will be issued a Wyckoff […]

Nedap Security Management has extended the use of its Convexs and Invexs readers to be able to read DESFire EV1 cards as well as several other card types. The card readers support different encryption technologies, including AES. Migration of standard Mifare to DESFire EV1 can be done with a configuration file that can be programmed […]

ActivIdentity Corp., a provider of strong authentication and credential management, announced that it had entered into an agreement to acquire CoreStreet Ltd., a provider of distributed identity credential validation solutions. ActivIdentity will pay approximately $20 million, primarily cash, but also include stock and warrants. The acquisition is subject to closing conditions and is expected to […]

Gemalto announced that Banca Intesa in Serbia has selected its Ezio Classic reader to secure e-commerce services. The reader will enable users to make online purchases with EMV security. Banca Intesa determined to implement Gemalto’s authentication solution to protect its online customers from card-not-present fraud. To operate the Ezio Classic reader users insert their banking […]

Before the end of the year smart card vendors could have a standard card command set that enables interoperability between credentials without middleware. The General ID Card Command Set (GICS) builds a standard language for the card command set so that different card standards can communicate without middleware, says Patrick Hearn, vice president of government […]