By Salvatore D’Agostino, IDmachines IDmachines recently has run across a number of situations in which people want to leverage the PIN on a FIPS 201 credential. The idea is to use a PIN on system as a second factor in combination with contactless components of the credential. Multi-factor authentication is a great idea for any […]

Affiliated Computer Services, a Dallas-based information technology company, has been chosen to provide the City of Lima, Peru with a contactless ticketing system for the country’s first bus rapid transit line. Under the terms of the $200 million contract, ACS will operate the system for a 14-year period. ACS will supply and operate a fully […]

Has the time for iris biometrics come? By Zack Martin, Editor, Avisian Publications When talking about biometric technologies the list typically goes fingerprint and then iris, in that order. Fingerprint biometrics have been the standard because it has been around longer and have a proven track record. But advances in iris technology along with new […]

Stolen laptops or hacked student databases are one thing, but lost student loan promissory notes? That’s what Florida’s Department of Education is telling 475 student-loan borrowers. According to the Office of Financial Student Assistance, the students’ financial records may have been exposed to identity theft due to the lost notes that students signed when they […]

Precise Biometrics, a developer of biometric solutions, has been awarded a contract valued at more than $6.1 million from the U.S. government. The contract specifies Precise provides immediate delivery to various agencies with hardware and software necessary for the existing infrastructure involving Precise’s Match-On-Card system. The specific solution is for U.S. security and cyber defense […]

Pusan Newport Company (PNC) has just finished final testing of an unmanned crane capable of moving RFID-marked objects to specific places, according to a Korea IT times article. The technology, which makes the yard almost an entirely automated operation, has been funded through a $100 million investment in 2008. The technology specifically sees an unmanned […]

The French National Commission for Data Protection and the Liberties (CNIL) has announced that for the first time they have approved the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), managers of the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT), to utilize biometric collection of test takers. The GMAT, which will be using PalmSecure vascular readers, is the first test […]