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News This data will then be stored on the card on a chip and also in the new National Identity Register (NIR). And he has warned that the ID card data could easily be linked with other initiatives such as CCTV surveillance using automatic facial... [04 May 2006]
FACADE-A Typed Intermediate Language Dedicated to Smart Cards
White Paper Such downloadable executable content requires to be trusted by the card execution environment in order to ensure that an instruction on a memory area is compliant with the definition of the data stored in this area. [24 Feb 2004]
ID cards plan: Airport union wants answers
News Click on the links below to find out everything you ever needed to know about the government's ID card plans. And the union said it wants to make sure workers will not shoulder the projected £93 cost of the biometric card. [20 Feb 2008]
ID cards: What's the latest?
News Click on the links below to find out everything you ever needed to know about the government's ID card plans. Students revolt against being ID card guinea pigs Loans and bank accounts to require card… [29 Jan 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. It also emerged that employers of the "trusted... [10 Mar 2008]
ID cards-based criminal record checks 'are A-OK'
News Click on the links below to find out everything you ever needed to know about the government's ID card plans. Each volunteer completed two legs in the trial - one using a passport and one using an ID card. [01 Oct 2007]
ID cards? One in four says no!
News Support for the UK's national ID card programme continues to plummet as one quarter of people say they are strongly opposed to the scheme. Opponents of the ID card scheme said the survey of just over 1,000 people, commissioned by the Joseph... [06 Feb 2008]
B&Q left door open for DIY hackers
News According to the security notice on B&Q's website, every online transaction is checked by the company's "fraud control systems" and "in the unlikely event of fraudulent or unauthorised use" the company promises to refund any money received by B&Q... [14 Nov 2003]
ID cards face student scorn
News Feedback from the site will be put towards tailoring the biometric card to suit young people's needs when they are offered the cards from 2010. She said the two fingerprints and photograph stored on the card would provide greater protection against... [09 Jul 2008]
Malice, misuse, mistake - security dangers pile up
Comment Of 482 large businesses surveyed by Computer Associates, 62 per cent were holding sensitive, regulated data such as credit card details or health records. Thieves hacked into the company's wi-fi network regularly between 2005 and 2007, stealing 45... [10 Mar 2008]
'Tamper-proof' chip and PIN terminals hacked
News The PCB has various holes that an attacker can use to insert a conductor into the serial data line, to tap both the PIN and card details. Researchers from Cambridge University have succeeded in capturing both PIN numbers and card details from... [27 Feb 2008]
Editor's Blog: Missing data, missing brains
Comment The loss of the data has led some to call for the scrapping of the ID card project too and reinforced a sense government technology projects will always end in failure. The argument goes something like this: imagine what catastrophes they would be... [21 Nov 2007]
Cotton Traders' site hacked: Thousands of details stolen
News Thousands of credit card details have been stolen after high street retailer Cotton Traders' website was hacked. She claimed it was only credit card numbers that were stolen. It was initially reported that 38,000 card details were stolen. [11 Jun 2008]
Cyber criminals turn pro
News Information being traded includes credit card details, PINs, addresses and bank account details. Credit card details were the most frequently advertised for sale on these servers, accounting for 22 per cent of all items sold. [17 Sep 2007]
UK passports face massive price hike
News The report also questions the need for both an ePassport and a national identity card, which will contain similar data. Leigh said: "Most of us are going to have to have both an ePassport and an identity card. [10 Oct 2007]
