The government of Ecuador has placed another order with On Track Innovations Ltd. (OTI) for infrastructure and support and maintenance for its national eID program. This order covers 2013. Ecuador has ordered elements of its eID program from OTI since 2009. This order brings the total it’s placed with the company to $4 million. OTI […]

Versatile Security Sweden AB has released vSEC:CMS T-Series 3.0, its smart card management system. In this version Versatile has added smart card printing capability, a new graphical interface and support of new smart cards, certification authorities and external databases. The system now covers .NET, dual interface and FIPS certified PIV smart cards. The T-Series supports […]

A proposal by Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, to fingerprint all its faculty has met with considerable resistance. Since early November, the university’s faculty senate has voted twice by a huge majority to reject fingerprinting for each of the school’s some 1,100 employees. “I have no problem with a background check – I have […]

A new online industry community hopes to become a resource on issues surrounding online identity issues. The Council for Identity Protection, sponsored by identity theft protection services provider LifeLock, will be a cross-industry group examining online trust, privacy and consumer rights. The group hopes to tackle commercial and social challenges found across industries when dealing […]

It seems that the battle rages on between Google and Verizon over the Google Wallet app with the FCC now getting involved. As reported by Phandroid.com, Verizon’s support of Google Wallet has flip-flopped since the app’s inception. The wireless giant’s inconsistent support of Google Wallet is likely a result of its loyalty and involvement in […]

California-based voice biometrics provider VoiceVault announced that a large American cable provider is using its voice biometric identity verification product to authenticate over 60,000 customer service calls a month. VoiceVault’s product allows customers to bypass verifying account information through an agent in order to add or change services or order a pay-per-view show. They can […]

California-based MY TrueCloud has released Invisible Cloud-Token, a tokenless way to deliver two-factor authentication via the cloud. MY TrueCloud uses proprietary algorithms to create one time passwords that a system uses automatically without an end-user seeing them. This web-based two-factor authentication method uses an existing VPN or MY TrueCloud’s SSL/VPN that optimizes the tokenless system. […]

ABI Research has ranked smart card and IC vendors within the government, health care and citizen ID markets and found Gemalto to be the top vendor in this field. ABI’s assessment looked at market shares and vendor matrices for 2011 and the first half of 2012 to get its rankings. In the smart card vendor […]