Will a new president scale back existing projects or add new ones? By Zack Martin, Editor We live in a completely different world of government identification initiatives than eight-years ago when George Bush was elected president. The U.S. Department of Defense’s Common Access Card was just getting off the ground. It was the first U.S. […]

Researchers at the University of Washington are pointing to potential problems with new RFID-enabled identification cards issued by the U.S. and the state of Washington. Vulnerabilities in the RFID tags embedded in the U.S. Passport Cards and Washington’s enhanced driver’s license (EDL) could leave the cards open to snooping or copying by hackers, according to […]

French contactless card company ASK is set to introduce two new products at CARTES and IDentification Nov. 4-6. These include a new range of prelmaninated inlays for contactless smart cards, Corelam, and a universal, multi-standard contactless module, the UCM108. Designed to be the core of the contactless cards required by the banking and the identity […]

ActivIdentity Inc., a provider of identity assurance and credential management systems, announced its new market focus and approach in identity solutions. The new strategy is addressing the key ID 360 market-driving sectors: Employer-to-Employee, Business-to-Customer, and Government-to-Citizen. Under ActivIdentity’s new strategy, the company will leverage its identity assurance platform and credential management system to apply a […]

CoreStreet has announced enhancements to the CoreStreet PIVMAN suite of products. Now available in its third version, the suite features expanded platform support and functionality for software, as well as a graphical dashboard reporting option for the management station. The PIVMAN product includes software for handhelds and PCs for both mobile and fixed command stations. […]

Digital Identification Solutions, a provider of ID card and high-security identification solutions, announced that South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles has ordered additional EDIsecure XID590ie retransfer printers to complete the implementation of 125 units in all 46 counties to produce the state drivers licenses and identification cards. South Carolina is utilizing the EDIsecure solution in […]

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security reached an agreement with the state of Michigan to issue enhanced driver licesenses. Washington and New York are already issuing the documents that are acceptable alternative document for crossing the United States’ land and sea borders. The new documents are called for under the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, which […]

By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor Oberthur Technologies may just be the ‘youngest old company’ in the card business. Sound like a contradiction? Consider this, it was founded in the mid-1800s but it was just twenty years ago that its first product was produced. For 150 years, the company ran paper through printing presses. Today it […]

The Smart Card Alliance Identity Council has elected new officers and a steering committee and outlined activities for the upcoming year. This year Council projects include developing white papers that discuss how the U.S. government’s FIPS 201 standard can be used for enterprise identity programs and emergency response official credentialing programs and publishing case studies […]

Saint James, N.Y.-based IDetect has released a new age verification scanner ideal for use on college campuses. The portable, ruggedized IDetect LITE ID Scanner can also scan driver licenses and corporate IDs. While it can scan 3D bar codes and magnetic stripe IDs, if the license or ID can’t be scanned, IDetect will take a […]