Contactless smart card provider LEGIC Identsystems will be displaying various enhancements of its advant technology platform at the CARTES & IDentification show in Paris Nov. 4-6. Some of these latest innovations include the company’s card-in-card solutions, which allow a third party to integrate applications on a dual interface smart card, providing, for example, a combination […]

The future of contactless lies in a convergence of payments, access, identity and transit among other applications. That’s INSIDE Contactless’s view, which it intends to highlight at the upcoming CARTES and IDentification show in Paris Nov. 4-6 with its “A Converging Contactless Life,” presentations. “INSIDE sees a perfect storm brewing where the next wave of […]

NXP Semiconductors, the semiconductor company founded by Philips, will launch its microcontroller smart card IC Mifare Plus at CARTES 2008, November 4-6 in Paris. Mifare Plus is the latest addition to NXP’s Mifare family of chips. NXP plans to demonstrate some of the security available to customers using Mifare Plus, including 128-bit Advanced Encryption Standard […]

Researchers at the University of Washington are pointing to potential problems with new RFID-enabled identification cards issued by the U.S. and the state of Washington. Vulnerabilities in the RFID tags embedded in the U.S. Passport Cards and Washington’s enhanced driver’s license (EDL) could leave the cards open to snooping or copying by hackers, according to […]

Mac users can log on to Microsoft Windows networks through DirectControl 4.2 from Centrify Corp., a provider of Active Directory-based access control and identity management solutions for non-Microsoft platforms. This newest offering for Mac OS X adds smart card-based login to Active Directory for single sign-on to Windows-integrated services and applications. Centrify leverages the PKI […]

Scheidt & Bachmann, a German company involved in car parks, leisure facilities, fare management and gas stations, has partnered with LEGIC Identystems, a Switzerland-based contactless smart card producer, to offer its customers electronic ticketing and access control in the company’s leisure sector business. The company is now in a position to focus increasingly on LEGIC […]

A German vocational school, BFB Bildung Formation Biel has turned to Océ (Switzerland), a manufacturer of high-tech printing and copying systems, and LEGIC Identsystems Ltd. for a new printer and copier system as well as a multi-functional credentialing system that allows controls building access, payments in the restaurant and at vending machines. As part of […]

Digital security provider Gemalto announced it has been chosen by Imprimerie Nationale, the French public printing office, to provide its Coesys Issuance solution to personalize the second-generation biometric passports that will be issued in France. These new passports contain digital biometric information, notably the holder’s fingerprints. By adopting second-generation travel documents, France is complying with […]

Daon, a developer of identity assurance software, has announced it will be developing a biometric messaging platform for the European Union’s developing Biometric Matching System (BMS) that will see the biometric databases and systems for 29 countries in the EU integrated into one. Daon will be working with Accenture and Sagem Defense Securite, the companies […]

Nathan Cummings, HID Global’s director, Integration/Applications for HID Connect, has been designated a Certified Information Systems Security Professional by the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium. “HID Global takes its leadership position in our industry seriously and that position demands that we actively address human resource needs to support our logical access control products and […]