A federal judge on Saturday in the US granted the Massachusetts transit authority's request for an injunction preventing three MIT students from giving a presentation about hacking smartcards used in the Boston subway system.
Details of vulnerabilities in the chipset used in London's Oyster travel smartcard have been released by Dutch researchers, who have said the smartcard's security was "fundamentally broken".
Australian-headquartered secure electronic transactions provider KeyCorp has secured a sub-contracting deal with Hong Kong-based PCCW Business eSolutions to deliver 1.2 million smart-cards for the territory's smart-card identity system.
A Dutch researcher has published code that purports to emulate and clone e-passports, and has released a video to prove it works.
A US judge let stand a temporary restraining order preventing three Massachusetts Institute of Technology students from discussing or disclosing their research into security vulnerabilities in the payment system for the local subway system.
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