Cryptography Research wins legal battle against Visa and licensees begin to sign By Chris Corum, Executive Editor I met Kit Rodgers from Cryptography Research in 2004 when his company announced its intent to license the countermeasures that protect smart card chips from a specific attack called Differential Power Analysis (DPA). He passionately argued that it […]

The Smart Card Alliance and Secure ID Coalition have scheduled a briefing for May 19 to discuss security and privacy in health care. The discussion will cover health care information privacy, identity management, access and authentication. The U.S. government is poised to spend $19 billion on health care IT as part of The American Recovery […]

Authenware, a provider of security software, announced Criterion HPS will resell Authentest, a keystroke biometrics technology, with The Cube, a high-speed, small-footprint computing appliance. The agreement enables Criterion HPS to augment cyber-protection in their computing appliances by incorporating Authentest’s identity authentication technology into supercomputers. A collection of Criterion HPS devices will be pre-configured with Authenware’s […]

CARTES & IDentification will be held from November 17 to 19 in Paris-Nord Villepinte. This year the show’s focus will be on authentication technology and the country in the spotlight will be Russia. The use of plastic cards in Russia has become widespread over recent years and the deployment of equipment at point of sale […]

I have to admit, if you would have asked me about Twitter a couple of months ago I wouldn’t have been able to tell you what it was. But then I started reading more about the micro-blogging site and decided to investigate. I started twittering on March 26 (First tweet: Writing the summer cover story […]

The Ennova Direct Corporation, a developer of new consumer technologies, has announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted them a patent for their retractable USB flash drive with fingerprint scanner and OLED interface screen. The OLED screen on the device houses the scanner, alerts a user whether or not their print […]

As government agencies and corporations embrace Macs, software lets CAC, FIPS 201 and .NET cards secure login via Active Directory Making Mac computers work in a Windows world has never been easy. But as more private-sector companies and U.S. government agencies add Macs into their environment, there’s a growing need for tools that enable them […]