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RSS smartcardLondon travellers hit by Oyster outage
News Travellers in London were forced to pay full price fares on Saturday as the computer system for the Oyster travel smartcard encountered technical problems during the morning. Card readers on the Transport for London (TfL) network weren't working... [14 Jul 2008]
Security Requirements for Next Generation RFID and Contactless Smartcard Applications
White Paper While security and encryption standards have been cornerstones in the establishment of eCommerce and electronic data interchange, the established symmetric and public key encryption schemes present a challenge in emerging RFID and contactless... [03 Jul 2008]
Paper-free train tickets on track
News Travellers will be able to buy smart tickets online using their mobile phone or PC and then download them onto a smartcard at home via a plug-in reader or at a station. Travellers will be able to get paperless rail tickets from the end of this year. [04 Jun 2008]
Smartcard Firewalls Revisited
White Paper This paper explores options for using a smartcard as an active node in a communication network rather than as an endpoint. The paper envisions in particular a proxy firewall running on a smartcard and combining the best of both worlds: the... [31 May 2008]
Idtechex Case Study: London Transport, UK
White Paper The TranSys consortium, led by EDS and Cubic, has selected among others, Philips' contactless chip technology for use in London's Oyster smartcard project, which began the first phase of roll-out by issuing Philips MIFARE-equipped cards to 80,000... [10 Apr 2008]
'Tamper-proof' chip and PIN terminals hacked
News Both terminals have tamper-proof mechanisms inside, but both can be circumvented by tapping the data line of the PIN Entry Device/smartcard interface. Saar Drimer and Steven Murdoch, overseen by Professor Ross Anderson, managed to hack two widely... [27 Feb 2008]
Mobile rail ticketing 'on track in Midlands by 2012'
News UK public transport giant Go Ahead Group has pledged to have 50 per cent of journeys on its London Midland rail franchise bought through smartcard technology by 2014.silicon.com Public Sector He said 20 per cent of tickets would be on smartcard... [02 Aug 2007]
Schools get lessons on biometric tech
News As children don't need to remember money or a smartcard, costs for replacing cards could also be reduced. Schools have been offered guidance on how to implement biometric technology. The advice from the British Educational Communications and... [25 Jul 2007]
Smartcard.Net: The Multi-Application, Multi-Language, Smart Card Platform
White Paper Smartcard.NET was designed to provide the numerous advantages of the Microsoft-designed, ECMA-certified .NET platform in a smart card framework. The aim of Smartcard.NET is to provide all the advantages of the .NET platform, but in a way suitable... [02 Jul 2007]
Photos: The Millennium Dome goes high-tech
Photo NEC has implemented a venue-wide RFID-based smartcard system to control staff access that is linked to the venue's time and attendance system. This week silicon.com got a sneak preview of the new-look Dome. [22 Jun 2007]
Biometric airport security gets thumbs-up
News This data was then uploaded onto an RFID smartcard, used in conjunction with a fingerprint reader at an automatic immigration barrier on arrival at Dubai, Heathrow or Hong Kong airports. Fingerprint and iris scans were used for screening more than... [20 Jun 2007]
ID management in the security spotlight
News Am I going to trust your company's smartcard to access my building? Identity management remains a problem for both private and public sector organisations, according to security experts speaking at London's InfoSecurity Europe event last week. [30 Apr 2007]
Advanced Features of Linux strongSwan the OpenSource VPN Solution
White Paper The powerful advanced features of the Linux strongSwan VPN solution will be presented: IPsec policies based on wildcards, certificate hierarchies or group memberships defined by X.509 attribute certificates; certificate revocation based on the... [01 Apr 2007]
Mobile Code as an Enabling Technology for Service-Oriented Smartcard Middleware
White Paper Smartcards can be seen as service providing entities that implement a secure, tamper-proof storage and offer computational resources which make them ideally suited for a variety of tasks such as authentication, management of personal profiles, and... [14 Mar 2007]
Biometric banks and borders backed by consumers
News More than 90 per cent of UK consumers and approximately two-thirds of US consumers said they want banks, credit card companies, health providers and government bodies to adopt biometric technologies more than other protection methods - such as... [06 Feb 2007]
