Texas Instruments has unveiled its new secure multi-purpose contactless chip designed for the growing closed-loop contactless micropayment, loyalty, ID and access application markets. A number of closed-loop applications, particularly in Asia and in Central and South America, are seeking the speed, convenience and security of the ISO/IEC 14443 standards-based contactless technology that TI’s new chip […]

Slovenia is going to deploy extended access control with its second generation electronic passport. Entrust Inc. will work with the country to implement the new security in the travel document. Slovenia’s second-generation e-passport, which will be integrated by technology partner S&T, represent a components of the country’s citizen-centric e-government. Their e-government services enable secure time-stamping […]

NXP Semiconductors says its newest security chip processes transactions twice as fast, 3.5 seconds, as the current industry standard for contactless smart card chips. The SmartMX, the P5CD081, also features Secure Fetch technology, providing enhanced protection against attack scenarios with light and lasers (so-called fault attacks). NXP is involved in more than 85% of all […]

The U.S. Department of State has ordered an upgrade from Precise Biometrics, a fingerprint authentication technology developer, to its match-on-card system. The upgrade, costing $620,000, consists of adding Windows Vista support to the existing infrastructure as well as on-site support and integration services provided by Precise. The Precise Match-On-Card system enables the fingerprint data of […]

According to officials with the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, the installation of RFID readers will begin next week in Nogales, Ariz. The readers are part of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, and are being installed in anticipation of new travel document requirements that take effect in June of next year. The readers will be […]

As the next October deadline for HSPD-12 nears, federal agencies are making progress in issuing credentials. The deadline requires all government employees to have background checks completed and credentials issued by Oct. 27. As of Aug. 4 the General Services Administration’s Managed Service Office says more than 224,000 employees have been sponsored, 119,146 have been […]

ActivIdentity Corp. announced that its ActivClient smart card technology is available to customers at the U.S. Department of Defense using select HP multifunction printers. The new solution requires employees to verify identity upon access to the device, or to multifunction printer features and functions. The software safeguards printed and scanned documents and provides added convenience […]

Biometric security checkpoints are being trialed as a replacement for manned stations at Manchester Airport’s Terminal 1 in an attempt to ease pedestrian traffic through the checkpoints while also improving security, according to an Info 4 Security article. The biometric stations are being provided by Fujitsu Services, a developer of biometric products, in partnership with […]

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TURBINE (TrUsted Revocable Biometric IdeNtitiEs), kind of a complicated acronym, but that goes along with the complexity of the project. The European Union-funded project involves finding a way to securely identify users by means of fingerprints, in which the biometric data used is protected by cryptographic technology. The EU has given the project more than […]