SCHUFA, a German credit reporting agency, has issued more than 1 million grid cards from Entrust for multi-factor authentication to its consumer portal. SCHUFA and its customers rely on the Entrust IdentityGuard authentication platform and Entrust’s grid cards. Entrust IdentityGuard provides users with a grid-based encryption table the size of a credit card. Printed on […]

There are many discussions surrounding the multiple user names and passwords individuals must remember to gain access to accounts. Countries across the globe are investigating ways to make it easier for people to securely access information. In Canada, SecureKey Technologies will be enabling individuals to use bank cards for access to government sites, says Andre […]

This has been quite the year for near field communication. The hype around the technology has skyrocketed and enabled handsets are actually being sold in the U.S. In a handful of locations, these handsets can be used for purchases and other transactions. NFC is not a brand new technology. Millions of handsets are deployed in […]

NXP Semiconductors has announced a partnership with Glodyne Technoserve, the technology service provider for the Indian State Government of Bihar, to provide contactless “e-Shakti” cards to citizens living in rural communities for access to banking and social welfare facilities. With the solution, residents of Bihar can use the SmartMX-based e-Shakti card as their identity card, […]

NXP Semiconductors has announced the launch its new CLRC663 contactless reader IC. Designed to meet the market need for higher integration, smaller housings and interoperability, the CLRC663 has been designed for use in a variety of infrastructure use cases such as banking, eGovernment, transport and mobile payment. According to NXP, the IC supports all 13.56-MHz […]

Authentication and encryption services provider DigiCert Inc. has released a public beta of its new ClickID trust seal program. The program aims to increase consumer confidence with strong identity verification through an identifiable site seal. Customers can use the standard ClickID seal or upgrade to ClickID Premium with Photo Verification. The latter service includes an […]

Visa launched the Visa Developer Center, a place where approved application deployers can access tools to assist in faster creation and rollout of payment applications, reports Outlook Series. The center offers assistance in creating e-commerce and mobile applications that will enable online purchases of all kinds, including those made with Visa’s new digital wallet, V.me. […]