The notorious Conficker worm struck some 700 campus computers at the University of Utah, including those at the school’s three hospitals last week. The outbreak was first detected Thursday and by Friday had spread throughout the Salt Lake City school. While no patient data was affected, a university spokesperson said that log-in and password data, […]

Allscripts, a developer of electronic records solutions for the health care industry, has announced the unveiling of a joint effort between themselves and biometric technology developer Fujitsu, according to a Kiosk Marketplace article. The outcome of the two companies working together is a biometric-secured kiosk intended to improve the security of sensitive patient records and […]

ActivIdentity Corp., a provider of strong authentication and credential management, announced that it has signed a contract with The Co-operative Financial Services, part of a consumer financial services provider in the United Kingdom. ActivIdentity’s 4TRESS Authentication Server secures money transfers, account updates and the addition of new payees. The Co-operative’s 1 million retail customers will […]

Launched in mid-January, JustAskGemalto.com has registered more than 800,000 hits. The site aims to answer consumer questions on how consumers can keep personal information safe and has also had 500 questions asked on various security topics. 
The site features questions and answers by category – traveling, communicating, surfing, personal data, buying and working. The site […]

Visa has put together a Malaysian partnership that includes a bank, a cell phone manufacturer and a mobile phone carrier to launch its first commercial mobile payments service using NFC technology. Consumers are now able to purchase an NFC-enabled mobile phone off the shelf and use it to make Visa payWave-enabled transactions at the point-of-sale […]

Ford Motor Company’s new concept car offers a glimpse at the auto company’s vision of the family car of the future. What does America’s least financially-troubled car maker envision the family of the near future requiring? RFID technology, among other things. The Transit Connect Family One concept has an RFID-enabled computer in the dashboard, enabling […]

CSC announced that the UK Identity and Passport Service (IPS), an agency of the Home Office responsible for issuing UK passports and ID cards, has awarded the company a 10-year managed IT services contract to upgrade the IPS application and enrollment system. The agreement has an estimated value of $570 million. IBM was awarded $390 […]

Bhima & Brothers Jewellers (B&BJ), a jewelry retailers with stores throughout southern India, has introduced an RFID-enabled tracking solution. The system integrates RFID tags with handheld PDAs and point-of-sale billing mechanisms to automate many stock management functions of the jewelry industry. The RFID solution was designed by MphasiS, a division of EDS and uses hardware […]

Scotland-based i4 Product Design has developed for another Scottish company, Tailwind Solutions, a contactless card payment solution for retailers that works in an EMV environment, allowing consumers to pay with their NFC-compliant phones or contactless EMV cards. The PoS Paddle Tap-It, which launched at the Contactless Intelligence Conference and Exhibition in London last week, is […]

VeriSign Inc. announced its VIP Access for mobile application is available on the Apple App Store. The application turns the iPhone into a one-time-password credential that can be used in conjunction with a username and password to strengthen the security of online accounts. VIP Access for Mobile on the iPhone creates two-factor authentication for consumers […]