Microsoft has been a friend of the biometric industry for some time, especially more recently with the rollout of their more robust security products and services. Today they announced nine new mice and keyboards, “including the company’s first hardware products with fingerprint recognition technology”. This has encouraged a rather intense debate among professionals, experts and […]

A new handheld reader is likely to make the wish list of every well-equipped security provider. Not only will it handle biometrics (fingerprints), it will also read smart cards, contactless cards, and even traditional mag stripes and bar codes. Judges at ISC West in Las Vegas, Nevada, in April were so impressed with Datastrip’s DSVII-SC […]

By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor The biometric-enabled contactless card is getting another boost from the successful trial at the Quantico Marine Corps base, where a system merging the new with the old has been underway since last year. SPAWAR (Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, Charleston, VA) is the technical support agency for the Marine […]

The Office of Greek EU Presidency used Zebra P520 printers to print ID badges to help secure high-profile meetings throughout the country. The cards had a unique bar code holding personal information on individual delegates. The barcode was read via Portable Data Terminals. The cards also incorporated a customized hologram for added security. Greece Strengthened […]

“This clever “challenge-response” system is also at the base of the Mobil Speedpass system: it’s what makes the Speedpass radio frequency identification (RFID) tag so difficult to clone. Other RFID systems don’t use challenge-response, which makes attacking them comparatively easy.“

Oberthur Card Systems’ recent NIST certification of its 64K dual interface smart card will allow the company to favorably compete for electronic passport production as well as possibly participate in the next phase of the United States Department of Defense’s Common Access Card project. Oberthur Card Systems Receives First FIPS 140-2 LEVEL 3 Certification for […]

Chip supplier INSIDE Contactless, headquartered in Aix-en-Provence, France, and FASVER, a French supplier of security films used in passports and other documents, last year got together to create a new way of producing passports, one that is extremely fraud- and counterfeit-proof. Called smartFilm™, it is designed to protect biodata on official documents, and is simply […]

On Track Innovations has licensed its contactless medical card, Medismart, to J4 Technologies, Atlanta, Ga., which will integrate the smart card-based medical card program in J4 offerings to the U.S. health care industry. The first installations are expected next month and follows a successful MediSmart implementation in South Africa. CUPERTINO, Calif. and ATLANTA, July 7 […]

At its facility in Quantico, Virginia, the U.S. Marine Corps is conducting a biometric test that could be a precursor to the use of biometrics on the Department of Defense’s Common Access Card. Bioscrypt’s V-Smart iClass access control reader will be used to tighten access in high-secure areas and to examine the benefits of implementing […]