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PCI Compliance: The Importance of Securing Payment Information

whitepaper The vast majority of these cases stemmed from data breaches associated with credit cards. Fraud and identity theft are on the rise. The Federal Trade Commission received more than 685,000 complaints of fraud and identity theft in 2005, totaling...

Tags: security standards

[13 May 2008]

Secret ID card review: Judge quashes its release

News O is for Other cards Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards N is for National Identity Register I is for Identity and Passport Service The High Court has quashed a ruling that a review of the ID card scheme should be published.

Tags: gateway reviews, national identity register, id cards

[14 Apr 2008]

ID cards fuel £147m consultancy bill

News Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards O is for Other cards The government plans to start taking the first biometric details from UK citizens for its National Identity Register scheme next year but has delayed the mass roll-out of the scheme until 2015.

Tags: home office, biometrics, id cards

[11 Apr 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 11.04.08

Round-Up The campaign is an attack on government plans to take the biometric details of UK citizens for ID cards, starting next year. An elaborate stunt dreamed up by anti-ID cards campaigners No2ID and Privacy International is offering a reward for anyone...

Tags: windows, yahoo, gordon brown, microsoft

[11 Apr 2008]

Password Security Guidelines

whitepaper Smart cards. In particular, it focuses on the use of user-IDs and passwords to verify the identity of users. This document introduces the basic concepts of network authentication. Various strategies for selecting strong, hard-to-guess passwords are...

Tags: biometrics, authentication, passwords, identity

[10 Apr 2008]

Photos: £1,000 reward for PM's fingerprints

Photo The elaborate stunt has been dreamt up by anti-ID cards campaigners No2ID and Privacy International, who will put up posters in tube stations and pub toilets. The campaign is an attack on government plans to take the biometric details of UK...

Tags: national identity register, biometrics, id cards

[07 Apr 2008]

Programming the Smallest Java Card Platform

whitepaper The Java Card is the smallest Java platform and available on millions of smart cards including some of the Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards used by GSM telephone operators. The Java Card API provides a portable platform for application...

Tags: java

[31 Mar 2008]

ID cards chief defends u-turn

News The head of Britain's ID cards project and national identity database has defended the government's revised ID card plans in the face of allegations of a u-turn after the project was scaled back. James Hall, director of the Identity and Passport...

Tags: id cards, security, identity, british

[10 Mar 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 07.03.08

Round-Up Furthermore, the Parliamentary vote to make ID cards compulsory will now be put back to 2015. Whitehall is planning to make the cards compulsory for them from 2009. There are a few more bits of empty posturing from the government here but overall...

Tags: vista, microsoft, steve, battle

[07 Mar 2008]

ID cards are dead

Comment Especially when a government commissioned report into the whole "identity assurance" issue, led by former HBoS banking chief James Crosby, was published this week saying ID cards will only be accepted by the public if they are free.

Tags: id cards, physical, cards, register

[07 Mar 2008]

ID card u-turn by government

News Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards O is for Other cards Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is also expected to reveal today that any Parliamentary vote to make ID cards compulsory for British citizens will now be delayed until 2015.

Tags: id cards, cards, identity, details

[06 Mar 2008]

Dear silicon.com...Illegal file-sharing, biometrics flying high, ID fines…

Comment ID cards: Gov't slap on fines of up to £1,000 ID cards are a really bad idea in light of my experience of government record keeping. ¦ The Naked CIO: Identity crisis ¦ Revealed: The full cost of a corporate data breach ¦ Open source...

Tags: biometrics, id cards, file sharing, gains

[28 Feb 2008]

'Tamper-proof' chip and PIN terminals hacked

News However, there is a user-accessible compartment to insert SIM cards that is not intended to be tamper-proof. F is for Federated identity Saar Drimer and Steven Murdoch, overseen by Professor Ross Anderson, managed to hack two widely used PIN...

Tags: chip and pin, cambridge university, connected, entry

[27 Feb 2008]

ID cards: Gov't slaps on fines of up to £1,000

News O is for Other cards Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards The fines would apply to foreign nationals entering or living in the UK, who will be required to have ID cards from November - ahead of the cards' introduction for UK citizens next year.

Tags: id cards, government, biometrics, identity

[26 Feb 2008]

Biometrics the future for flying bliss?

News Finn said that future security systems will rely on e-passports, ID or smart cards or visas that would contain both biometric data - such as fingerprints and iris scans - and biographical data, ranging from name and address to job and marital status.

Tags: biometrics, travel, airport, automated

[21 Feb 2008]

ID cards plan: Airport union wants answers

News A spokesman for the Identity and Passport Service said it made sense to adopt an incremental approach to rolling out ID cards: "It is obviously right and logical that our first priority should be to consider where ID cards can be of greatest...

Tags: id cards, no2id, card, cards

[20 Feb 2008]

Editor's Blog: ID cards - cock-up and conspiracy...

Comment The action takes place in a UK where ID cards and biometrics have become a standard method of verifying identity. Still, I couldn't resist the BBC's new politico-techno-conspiracy thriller - The Last Enemy - featuring ID cards, pervasive CCTV...

Tags: id cards, database, government, biometrics

[20 Feb 2008]

Dear silicon.com...Naked CIO, silver skills and ID card anger…

Comment ID cards? I don't oppose the principle of ID cards - I have major issues though. ID cards are a good idea. ID cards would be a great convenience for people if it were possible to choose what information was stored (which could include blood group...

Tags: id cards, recruitment, jobs, views

[14 Feb 2008]

ID cards? One in four says no!

News Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards Opponents of the ID card scheme said the survey of just over 1,000 people, commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, showed the government would be "unable to impose" the cards on the population.

Tags: no2id, id cards, government, london

[06 Feb 2008]

Editor's Blog: Another blow to identity fraudsters

Comment For years the government has been telling us that it is so worried about the menace of identity fraud that it wants to spend £5bn on identity cards that will apparently protect us. If nothing happens, then next time the government starts talking...

Tags: full disclosure, data protection, identity fraud, id cards

[06 Feb 2008]

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