GlobalPlatform, the international specification body for smart card infrastructure, has announced its Board of Directors for fiscal year 2009-2010, following annual elections for five of the eleven Board seats. Individual members to serve as Board Officers for a one-year term have also been confirmed. Sébastien Tormos, director of marketing at Datacard Group, retains his position […]

The Payments Processing Information Sharing Council, a forum for sharing information about fraud, threats, vulnerabilities and risk mitigation practices in the payments industry, has elected its steering committee for the 2010-2011 term. Made up of seven payment industry leaders, the committee will set the agenda of the organization and determine the council’s upcoming initiatives. Appointments […]

An incident involving an alleged gunman at St. Paul College in Minnesota has turned into a lesson in identity vetting for campus card program managers everywhere. On Sept. 23 the technical school went on lockdown when a female student reported seeing a man with a gun in a campus elevator upset over his financial aid. […]

AeroScout announced that the Shimane Asahi Rehabilitation Program Center, the largest Private Finance Initiative (PFI) correctional facility in Japan, has successfully installed their Prisoner and Staff Tracking solution. The system uses an integrated full-prison management security system by means of Wi-Fi RFID tags, which enable guards to monitor the locations of each inmate and compare […]

SMARTRAC, manufacturer and supplier of RFID components, was awarded with an RFID vehicle tracking project in the Philippines. By implementing long-range passive RFID tags, the project is expected to improve traffic flow, help enforce traffic laws and increase vehicle security. SMARTRAC is already delivering windshield labels affixed with RFID tags to Free2move Scientific, the provider […]

One of the clues that lead the New Haven, Conn. Police Department to the murderer of a Yale lab technician was the audit logs of the physical access control system in place at the research facility. The card swipe logs showed that Raymond Clark III was the last person to access the lab where Annie […]

Gujarat has become the first Indian state to issue RFID-enabled ID cards to its police officers for improved security, surveillance and management of the police force, according to indianexpress.com. The extent of the deployment is currently confined to the nearly 100 policemen in the rural Rajkot Range, but the government hopes to cover all 4,000 […]

Entrust Inc. will provide the unified security infrastructure for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. This agreement helps DHS enable cost-savings, meet HSPD-12 requirements, encrypt communications and data, and deploy secure credentials for both physical and logical access. Facilitated by partner XTec Inc., who is the HSPD-12 solution provider for DHS, the Entrust deployment will […]

Janet Napolitano, secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and John Morton, assistant secretary of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), have announced that ICE’s Secure Communities initiative has identified more than 111,000 aliens criminal aliens in its first year. The Secure Communities initiative is a partnership between ICE, DHS, state and local […]

Cogent Systems, a developer of biometric devices, has announced that its mobile biometric authentication devices, Fusion Mobile Ident II and Mobile Ident III, have been certified compliant with the FBI’s Next Generation Identification (NGI) Initiatives and Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) Image Quality Specifications (IQS). The testing for certification was completed by officials from […]