Adelaide has formed a shortlist of vendors for its electronic ticketing tender that have been invited to participate in a tender process.
Welfare agency Centrelink has decided to make an internally developed smart card and ID authentication protocol freely available to external organisations.
Queensland Transport (QT) has selected three core technology suppliers for the state's chip-embedded drivers' licences, which will use public key infrastructure (PKI) to encrypt drivers' biometric information.
Federal Human Services Minister Joe Ludwig today said the government was looking for technology vendors to supply a new version of the Centrelink-issued BasicsCard that allows welfare recipients to access fundamental services.
The Queensland Government has signed a contract with Australian card manufacturing company Placard to provide millions of smartcard-based drivers' licences to the state.
Transport for London may replace its Oyster card with with new ticketing systems operated through mobile phones or bank cards.
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".
The researcher who claims to have created code that can emulate and clone e-passports has given details of the purported hack.
The Australian Customs Service today said its inbound e-passport authentication system SmartGate would not be fooled by fake details, after a Dutch hacker claimed to have broken through similar systems in Europe.
A Dutch researcher has published code that purports to emulate and clone e-passports, and has released a video to prove it works.
The South Australian state government late last week called for companies to express their interest in building its planned new public transport ticketing system.
Queensland never does anything by halves.
Struggling Australian smart card and point of sale company Keycorp today said it would sell its smart card business for $25.3 million to an unnamed international company.
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.
Cubic, a member of the Transys consortium that runs London's Oyster smartcard public transport system, has been legally restrained by its partner EDS.
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