Securing identities is a core concern with the increase of electronic travel documents. Sophisticated applications and profitable fraud scenarios attract professional, organized crime. Modern day attacks are beyond simple counterfeiting. Security-News.tv spoke to experts of the ID security industry – Digital Identification Solutions, Giesecke & Devrient, atos, Infineon Technologies – to find out more. About […]

The 2012 CARTES Exhibition & Conference (formerly “CARTES et IDentification”) will take place at Paris-Nord Villepinte exhibition centre between 6 and 8 November 2012. This year, 2 major themes explored at the show will be mobile payment and security in the Cloud, and the special guest country will be India. The SESAMES Awards Ceremony will […]

Identive Group  announced a revolutionary way to enable the use of mobile phones to open doors and log on to computer networks. For the first time, users can enjoy the freedom of an open standards-based solution with government level security to gain access to buildings and IT networks using NFC-enabled smartphones. In the industry’s first […]

Two news stories from Identive today that have a Japanese flavour in common. First up is the news that Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. and Identive Group, Inc. are to jointly develop a new ID card reader that allows Japanese merchants, banks and others to read any of the diverse types of electronic identity credentials in […]

OpenWays, a leading provider of mobile key solutions, recognized the convenience of NFC and selected NXP for its superior end-to-end solutions expertise to help create the Mobile Key DUAL with Pure NFC™ service hotel key system. Thesmart phones will securely transmit hotel key credentials to the room doorlock via NFC. The OpenWays doorlock utilizes the […]

Verizon Wireless is collaborating with two ASSA ABLOY companies – HID Global and Yale Locks & Hardware – to demonstrate the benefits of smartphones carrying mobile keys. The demonstration shows how Verizon Wireless smartphones, carrying ASSA ABLOY/HID Global Mobile Keys, can be used to open doors fitted with Yale Real Living™ locks featuring Near-Field Communications […]