Gemalto has introduced the Ezio Thin Reader, a new small authentication device for online authentication. The credit card-sized reader fits in a wallet, so that users can carry it with them wherever they go. The new device enables customers to carry an authentication device and their banking card together at any time. In addition, Ezio […]

Contactless smart card provider LEGIC Identsystems will be displaying various enhancements of its advant technology platform at the CARTES & IDentification show in Paris Nov. 4-6. Some of these latest innovations include the company’s card-in-card solutions, which allow a third party to integrate applications on a dual interface smart card, providing, for example, a combination […]

The future of contactless lies in a convergence of payments, access, identity and transit among other applications. That’s INSIDE Contactless’s view, which it intends to highlight at the upcoming CARTES and IDentification show in Paris Nov. 4-6 with its “A Converging Contactless Life,” presentations. “INSIDE sees a perfect storm brewing where the next wave of […]

Precise Biometrics, a developer of biometric and smart card technologies, has received an order valued at roughly $500,000 from the U.S. Department of State. The new order, comprising of licenses and toolkits, specifies an upgrade to the U.S. Department of State’s existing Match-on-Card system from Precise. The upgrades adds Windows Vista support to the card […]

Aladdin Knowledge Systems, an information security company specializing in authentication, software DRM and content security, announced that Aladdin eToken and Aladdin SafeWord have been verified as Citrix Ready. The Citrix Ready program helps customers identify third-party solutions that add value in Citrix Application Delivery Infrastructure solutions. The Citrix Ready program makes it easy for customers […]

NXP Semiconductors, the semiconductor company founded by Philips, will launch its microcontroller smart card IC Mifare Plus at CARTES 2008, November 4-6 in Paris. Mifare Plus is the latest addition to NXP’s Mifare family of chips. NXP plans to demonstrate some of the security available to customers using Mifare Plus, including 128-bit Advanced Encryption Standard […]

Researchers at the University of Washington are pointing to potential problems with new RFID-enabled identification cards issued by the U.S. and the state of Washington. Vulnerabilities in the RFID tags embedded in the U.S. Passport Cards and Washington’s enhanced driver’s license (EDL) could leave the cards open to snooping or copying by hackers, according to […]