The Indian Food and Civil Supplies Ministry has found around 150 faked biometric-based ration cards in the Chikkaballapur district, reports Deccan Herald. Department officials accidentally uncovered the fictitious cards when it found one that had an elderly couple claiming to have young children. Further investigation uncovered the fraud. The department has filed a case against […]

The U.S. Army Contracting Command has awarded a contract to Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) for biometric applications and systems, reports Defense Systems. The contract comes from the Army Product Manager for Joint Personnel Identification (PM JPI) and is part of the U.S. Army’s Computer Hardware, Enterprise Software and Solutions Information Technology Enterprise Solutions – […]

A U.S. district judge in San Antonio has ruled in favor of the school district that has deployed student ID cards that contain RFID chips, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. John Jay High School is one of two in the district that’s testing the new name badges to automate attendance to […]

The U.S. Postal Service is piloting a program that would enable federal agencies to accept third-party identity credentials instead of requiring users to create government usernames and passwords, reports Information Week. The pilot is associated with the Federal Cloud Credential Exchange (FCCX). Due to a requirement set by the federal CIOs in October 2011, federal […]

The government of Oman is now requiring all Sri Lankan nationals who are seeking employment in Oman to submit to biometric fingerprinting and scanning before going to the country, reports The Nation. The Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Bureau (SLFEB) is working with Oman to implement biometrics software for fingerprint data storage of Sri Lankan migrant […]

Identity-as-a-Service platform provider PasswordBank has partnered with SecurEnvoy to add tokenless two-factor authentication to its identity management product. PasswordBank’s clients will now be able to access cloud applications through a single-sign-on platform. The two-factor authenticating feature will utilize SMS messaging capabilities, eliminating the need for a token. By implementing SecurEnvoy’s system, PasswordBank can now offer […]

Israeli-based NICE Systems has launched Contact Center Fraud Prevention, a software solution for call centers to track fraud patterns and screen phone interactions against a known fraudster watch list. The product uses voice biometrics to identify fraudulent callers through a voice print that automatically cross-references calls with a watch list. The system uses NICE’s Interaction […]

ODIN, a provider of RFID solutions for health care and critical asset tracking, announced the launch of an asset inspection solution combining RFID-enabled iPads with an innovative Web-based platform for reporting and analytics. EasyID identifies assets using RFID technology and enables users to add and manage inspection histories for the asset. Data is stored securely […]