ZF Electronics Ltd – formerly Cherry Electrical Products Ltd – was awarded a contract for 8,000 of its smart card keyboard products which are being used as part of an ambitious security project being undertaken by the West Midlands Police in the UK. The company’s G83-6644LUAGB-2 smart card keyboard was an part of the tender […]

A new survey from campus financial services provider Higher One shows that many college students, in an attempt to adjust to the current economy, are changing their majors or considering graduate school to postpone having to enter the workforce. According to the poll from the New Haven, Conn.-based company, more than 20% of students are […]

U.S. Bank explores future of identity and payment cards with high tech pilots With today’s tech-happy consumers, providing them with the latest gadget or innovative service could lead to a happier bank customer. Banking today is about more than just parking your money in a brick and mortar facility or even with an online system. […]

Wells Fargo recently launched its first student funds disbursement program at Texas A&M University, College Station. The program, which directs students to a Web site to select how they want to receive financial aid or other refund payments from the university, streamlines the university’s operations by outsourcing payment preference collection and payment processing. “This new […]

A desktop computer stolen from Virginia Commonwealth University may have exposed the Social Security numbers of more than 17,000 current and former students. As a result, the university is offering a year of free ID theft insurance to those affected. The Richmond, Va.-based university quit using Social Security numbers as student identifiers two years ago, […]

By David C. Wyld, Southeastern Louisiana University The “five finger discount” has become an all-too accepted part of the American lexicon. In recent years, we’ve seen celebrities, politicians, sports stars caught in the act of shoplifting items of little real value, but with embarrassing and grainy store surveillance footage showing-up on the cable networks and […]

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority installing NXP Semiconductors’ new more secure MIFARE Plus contactless technology for its automatic fare collection infrastructure. LA Metro annually attracts about 480 million boardings in the Greater Los Angeles Area. “Security is a key element of our system, and NXP’s MIFARE Plus has proven to meet all our […]

CGN & Associates Inc., a business consulting firm, provided program management for the State of Illinois FIPS 201 Interoperable Secure Credentialing Project. Last week the State of Illinois participated in the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Office of National Capital Region Coordination (NCRC)’s, Spring Ahead, a Federal and Mutual Aid multi-jurisdictional electronic validation demonstration leveraging […]

Law enforcement personnel of the Sheriff’s Department of San Diego County in California have become the first to receive biometric-based immigration information on the prisoners they oversee, according to an Imperial Valley News article. The system, which is part of the Secure Communities program administered by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), works by […]

Probaris Inc. is participating in an emergency management demonstration coordinated by the FEMA’s Office of National Capital Region Coordination (NCRC) during the week of May 18-22. The Spring Ahead demonstration brings together more than 30 organizations in 20 locations across the United States, from the National Capital Region to Hawaii. The objective of the event […]