Lumidigm has added bioLock software to its fingerprint readers, making them certified by SAP for authentication purposes. The bioLock software manages SAP user identities with biometrics to help prevent insider fraud in areas such as inventory shrinkage, payroll, financial fraud or data loss. The software can manage both the log-on process, as well as re-authentication […]

NXP Semiconductors has developed a touch sensor that can be built into contactless payment cards and passports to prevent their details from being read or payments taken without the user’s active permission, according to Engineering and Technology Magazine. Using a capacitive touch sensor, similar to those found in mobile smart phones, NXP engineers created the […]

Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird unveiled Canada’s new e-passport, featuring new security elements. The passport will contain complex historical imagery on all of its pages that will be difficult for counterfeiters to duplicate, as reported on Before It’s News. The passports also feature digitally printed photos of the passport holder embedded into the passport […]

Jason’s Deli and Blue Lemon are two resaraunt who have recently started testing RFID technology to help track and expedite food orders, according to Nation’s Resaraunt News. Employees taking orders at the sales counter provide customers with an RFID device resembling a drink coaster. The employee also enters the identification number on the device into […]

FIME has been contracted to help eftpos Payments Australia Limited migrate from magnetic stripe cards to a contact and contactless chip card. eftpos started this project in early 2011 by developing its eftpos chip, which it piloted in October 2011. It continued enhancing the card, introducing Australia’s first contactless chip card in June 2012. This […]

DeviceFidelity Inc. announced the CredenSE product line of microSD devices, a commercial NFC product with on board active signal amplification chip, secure element and miniature antenna. CredenSE can work on handsets with embedded NFC and those without. CredenSE also works with the DeviceFidelity iCaisse to bring NFC enabled mobile wallet applications to all iPhone models. […]

HID Global announced a cloud-based platform for secure NFC tags and services that eliminates the inherent risks of authenticating original documents, processes, data-logging and high-value assets with traditional sign-off procedures. Leveraging the company’s Trusted Identity Platform for secure communications and identity transactions, the HID Trusted Tag Services platform is designed to secure assets and protects […]

Charismathics announced that NIST has re-certified the company’s CSSI PIV Middleware as FIPS 201 compliant. CSSI PIV ensures compliance with existing as well as future PIV cards and also all legacy Defense Department Common Access Cards and support for SIPRnet cards and tokens. charismathics enables interoperability and hardware independence as well as software support across […]