The smart card market in China has conventionally favored local vendors in its production of government issued identifications but the desire for contactless technology seemingly trumps domestic loyalties. In 2011, China accounted for 13% of global government ID shipments and currently boasts the largest national ID project with more than 900 million credentials in circulation. […]

e-Nabler Corporation, a cloud-based SaaS developer for mobile solutions, has certified Ingenico’s iSMP mobile payments sled for iPod and iPhone. The product’s mobile POS app eMobilePOS enables merchants to process EMV chip & PIN payment transactions in the U.S. Now that it incorporates Ingenico’s iSMP device, eMobilePOS can scan bar codes, read credit cards, process […]

The Smart Card Alliance announced the formation of the EMV Migration Forum, an industry association whose goal will be to facilitate the move from magnetic stripes to EMV contact and contactless technology in the United States. The EMV Migration Forum will cover a number of industry related topics including consumer awareness related to EMV adoption, […]

Cubic Transportation Systems has expanded the regional transit access pass (TAP) card system in Los Angeles County to include the Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT), the region’s second largest bus operator. LADOT is the 12th transit operator in the region to join TAP, and is the second largest bus operator on TAP, after MTA. […]

The notion of an identity ecosystem seems like a good idea. Provide a single credential that individuals can use for secure or anonymous access to Internet sites without having to remember dozens of user names and passwords. And while it may seem like a simple idea, the implementation of such an identity ecosystem is anything […]

Charles Walton, formerly general manager and executive vice president of INSIDE Secure, , has been named chief executive officer of SecureKey Technologies, a Canadian developer of secure authentication solutions. Walton, a 30-year veteran of the security technology industry related to authentication, smart card ID systems, NFC/mobile data systems and the bank card payments ecosystem, will […]

Cubic Transportation Systems has received an extension to their system support services contract – an increase of approximately $9 million – from the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Agency (Metro). The extension covers components of the universal fare system (UFS) fare collection system that is the foundation of the regional contactless smart card branded as […]

Over the past four years, as the organizers of the London 2012 Olympic Games led the construction of the Olympic Park and Athletes Village, British biometrics firm Human Recognition Systems (HRS) secured the area with MSite, a biometric identification management and access control platform. The MSite system incorporated biometric identification, card-level encryption and cloud-based technology. […]

A Black Hat presentation on payment terminals and their vulnerabilities was given by a German security researcher known only as “Nils,” and his colleague Rafael Dominguez Vega, both of MWR InfoSecurity in the U.K., A PCWorld article detailed. The presentation targeted three of the most popular point-of-sale (POS) terminals currently in service. The exact models […]

Israels’ Interior Ministry will be reevaluating its pilot of smart identity cards, The Jerusalem Post reports. The decision came during a recent High Court of Justice hearing and questioned whether a single, centralized biometric database is the best choice for collecting and maintaining citizens’ data. Civil rights groups and data security campaigners petitioning that such […]