Smart card technology has been successfully combined with biometrics for a number of years in applications such as health cards, drivers licenses, single sign on tokens and national ID cards. Biometrics are now being combined with SIM cards – and winning industry plaudits in the process. Jonas Andersson, vice president of Business Development at Precise Biometrics, reports.
New figures announced by industry supplier XIRING show that 21 million bank card based strong authentication solutions have been delivered in Europe to replace the static password for online banking services and to secure e-commerce payments.
Two new studies have shown that there are plenty of reasons for optimism that mobile banking can take off, but that there are significant hurdles still to overcome, particularly in the USA.
Malaysia is the location for the first commercial Visa mobile payments service for point-of-sale transactions using Near Field Communications (NFC) technology. According to the company – and its partners: Maxis, Nokia and Maybank – the service marks the first time consumers can purchase an NFC-enabled mobile device off the shelf and use that device to make Visa payWave-enabled transactions at the point-of-sale instead of using their payment card.
Payment cards, whether they are debit or credit cards are an essential component of modern commerce. EMV-based cards have already helped improve the security of millions of bank cards throughout the world, giving even more people the confidence to make payments. But there are other security concerns associated with bank cards. Michael Christodoulides, information security consultant at 7Safe tells CTT that payment cards are changing and explains the role of Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).
French smart card manufacturer Gemalto has announced a range of projects which target eID technology at younger members of society.
EAST – the European ATM Security Team – has reported a 149% rise in ATM related fraud attacks during 2008. This reverses a previous trend and is primarily led by a 129% increase in card skimming incidents, with a total of 10,302 reported.
Gemalto is providing Banco Santander, a major European financial institution, with new smart card-based technology for its well-established university identity card program in Spain. University Politecnica Catalunya (UPC) will be the first to roll out out this technology in the country.
In a series of announcements Barclays Bank in the UK has signalled its intent to become a market leader in the growth of contactless payments, both via cards and mobiles.
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