Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have created a verification mechanism that may eliminate the security weaknesses associated with NFC. The new software — developed under director and founder of UAB’s Security and Privacy In Emerging Computing and Networking Systems (SPIES) Nitesh Saxena — is capable of determining the distance between a valid […]

Repsol, an integrated Spanish oil and gas company, has installed PIN pads with contactless technology in 140 services stations across Barcelona and Balearic Islands. The contactless deployment follows “la Caixa” and its announcement that the bank has already issued more than 950,000 contactless cards and has 19,000 PIN pads in operation which are adapted to […]

Hong Kong and Shenzhen citizens will soon be offered a convenience with intercity commuting and spending with the introduction of the “Hu Tong Xing” smart card, according to China Daily. Octopus Cards Ltd and Shenzhentong Co Ltd together launched a two-in-one co-named smart card that combines a Hong Kong dollar e-purse and a yuan e-purse. […]

The GUARDIAN RFID Corrections System, in partnership with the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office in Tampa, Fla., unveiled the RFID Arrestee Management System to accelerate the speed and accuracy with which arrestees are captured, identified and managed from the point of arrest to release. Law enforcement officers can outfit a suspect with an RFID wristband and […]

At the Intel Developer Forum, MasterCard announced its intention to partner with the chip-maker to provide NFC-enabled laptops, enabling them to act as credit card terminals. The initiative would allow for an online shopper to simply tap their card or phone to the computer to complete a transaction. In effect, this means that shoppers would […]

GS1 US and the Voluntary Interindustry Commerce Solutions (VICS) Association, two supply-chain standards organizations serving multiple industry sectors, have signed a memorandum of understanding to merge their operations. The merger is designed to streamline the standards adoption process for the industry and give the not-for-profit organizations’ members access to standards for a broader range of […]

Open source content management platform Drupal has added VASCO Data Security International Inc.’s MYDIGIPASS.COM for DRUPAL v6 to its contributed models. With it, Web developers can embed secure login access for the sites they build within the Drupal platform. This v6 module integrates two-factor authentication into websites built on the open source platform. It also […]

The Leyte Provincial Government in the Philippines has developed and deployed a biometric system for the purpose of authenticating recipients of cash grants from teh Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) Pantawid para sa Pamilyang Pilipino (4Ps) project. As reported on Asia Pacific Future Gov, the cash grants are given to extreme low-income households […]