The Chabot – Las Positas Community College District in California has selected the refund management system of Higher One, a financial services and payment company focused exclusively on higher education, to issue financial aid payments electronically to the district’s 12,000 financial aid applicants. The district, comprised of Chabot College and Las Positas College, was looking […]

The new version of SSL lets companies go the extra mile to reassure customers When the owner of French Soaps Ltd. learned about Extended Validation SSL, a new certificate online retailers could use to better secure transactions while also reassuring customers, he began to investigate. Curtis Cord, president of the Middleton, R.I.-based company, and his […]

FBI Director Robert Mueller testified in front of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on the Judiciary about the IT advance the agency is making. Of particular note is the FBI’s Next Generation Identification system that will add other biometric technologies and information to the criminal database. “It will also produce faster returns of information, […]

The Smart Card Alliance Physical Access Council has announced new officers and steering committee and upcoming projects for the next year. Upcoming activities include a white paper on interoperable identity credentials for the air transport industry, recommendations for enhanced Wiegand message formats to support FIPS 201-related implementations, and an in-person council session at the Smart […]

A Carleton University student is charged with breaking into the school’s computer network and exposing the personal information of 32 students, according to a report in the Ottawa Sun. Mansour Moufid is charged with mischief to data and unauthorized use of a computer. The penalties for the charges range from fines to jail time. Moufid […]

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 […]

Contactless payment technology is continuing to gain merchant acceptance. The latest convert is drugstore chain Rite Aid’s 3,800 of its 5,000 U.S. stores which are now accepting MasterCard PayPass cards. “Our number one priority is our customers, and we are committed to providing them with unparalleled service and convenience,” said Don Davis, Rite Aid senior […]

What better way to demonstrate your electronic locking system than at a police college? That’s what SALTO Systems has done at the National Police Forensic Training College at Harperley Hall in County Durham in the northeastern part of England. The company secured 80 bedrooms, multi-function classrooms and other facilities at the college with proximity locks. […]

President Bush signed legislation establishing a federal grant program that provides a new source of financing for colleges and universities to acquire and install electronic physical solutions. The campus security measure attempts to help colleges develop and implement state-of-the-art emergency systems and campus safety plans. It also requires the Department of Education to develop an […]

L-1 Identity Solutions Inc. has received more than $9 million in task orders from multiple customers for 1,460 PIER and PIER-T iris enrollment and recognition devices, 535 HIIDE Expansion Module Jumpkits and more than 10,000 batteries for biometric devices. The company expects to begin shipments in the third quarter of 2008. The names of the […]