Codebench, Inc. announced that Software House has signed a distribution agreement to sell its PIVCheck Product Suite, a cardholder validation solution for HSPD-12 compliance with automated registration and certificate management. PIVCheck Plus has been integrated with Software House C·CURE 800/8000 and C·CURE 9000, providing three-factor authentication and performing biometric matching. Managing the acquisition of cardholder […]

Secure identity provider HID Global, Irvine, Calif., has bought Nectarsmart card .NET technology, based on Microsoft.NET, from StepNexus and Hive Minded. Nectar is a commercial and licensed reference implementation of a .NET virtual machine for embedded systems with a smart card dedicated operating system. The acquisition, consistent with HID’s offering of a range of smart […]

iDcentrix announced it will showcase the company’s banknote and polycarbonate identification card technology at the CARTES & IDentification 2008 trade show to be held in Paris at the Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre from November 4 through November 6, 2008. The company’s use of banknote paper, which can include complex watermarks, a security feature found in […]

Precise Biometrics, a developer of biometric and smart card technologies, has received an order valued at roughly $500,000 from the U.S. Department of State. The new order, comprising of licenses and toolkits, specifies an upgrade to the U.S. Department of State’s existing Match-on-Card system from Precise. The upgrades adds Windows Vista support to the card […]

NXP Semiconductors, the semiconductor company founded by Philips, will launch its microcontroller smart card IC Mifare Plus at CARTES 2008, November 4-6 in Paris. Mifare Plus is the latest addition to NXP’s Mifare family of chips. NXP plans to demonstrate some of the security available to customers using Mifare Plus, including 128-bit Advanced Encryption Standard […]

It’s deadline day. More than four years ago HSPD-12 mandated that government agencies issue secure credentials to government employees on Oct. 27, 2008. While all government employees will not have the credentials by the end of business progress has been made, says Mike Butler, program manager for the managed service office at the General Services […]

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 […]