The federal government's proposed smartcards will help protect the public purse from welfare cheats, Treasurer Peter Costello says.
Welfare agency Centrelink has decided to make an internally developed smart card and ID authentication protocol freely available to external organisations.
Dutch chipmaker NXP Semiconductors has sued a university in The Netherlands to block publication of research that details security flaws in NXP's Mifare Classic wireless smart cards, a market leading product used in public transport and building entry systems around the world.
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".
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Acer's latest offering definitely fits within the desktop replacement category; it's big, has a decent processor and plenty of memory, disk space and connectivity options, but it also comes with a price-tag to match.
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