The U.S. government has been stepping up its use of smart cards to help lock down its computer networks, but hackers have found ways around them. Over the past 18 months, security consultancy Mandiant ...

Retailer Target Corp., in conjunction with Visa U.S.A. Inc., said this week that it will begin to offer smart card versions of its Visa credit cards to Target customers throughout the U.S. The smart ...

Employees at Post & Schell PC, a law firm in Philadelphia, need smart cards to do just about everything, from entering company facilities and using elevators to securing two-factor authentication so ...

Credit card fraud has long been the bane of banks around the globe. And now, with Internet shopping becoming more popular by the nanosecond, it has become extremely high priority to try to stabilise ...

July 9, 2003 – There has been a drastic rise in breaches of corporate computer networks this year. In the first quarter alone, there were 42,586 security incidents, compared with 80,094 for all of ...

The U.S. government has been stepping up its use of smart cards to help lock down its computer networks, but hackers have found ways around them. Over the past 18 months, security consultancy Mandiant ...

With about 7,000 actively using the Presto card, the so-called smart card system is still failing on a regular basis. Will the problems be solved by the drop dead April deadline? At this point, the ...

New banking technology and shifts in telephone usage are changing the economics of the smart card industry, where worldwide sales of cards containing microprocessors are set to outstrip sales of ...

After lagging behind Europe for years, the U.S. is starting to employ smart cards, with a number of government agencies adopting the technology. Being a late adopter has given the U.S. a different ...