The first smartcards for Australian government staff will be issued in August 2007 following a request for tender from the lead agency in the project, Centrelink.
Welfare agency Centrelink has decided to make an internally developed smart card and ID authentication protocol freely available to external organisations.
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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".
A Dutch researcher has published code that purports to emulate and clone e-passports, and has released a video to prove it works.
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Kicking off the RSA security conference in San Jose last week, Microsoft's chairman Bill Gates told the masses of security folk that the next version of Windows will mark the beginning of the end for passwords.
Passwords will soon be a thing of the past, replaced by biometric and smart-card technology, Bill Gates reiterated on Tuesday.
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NEC has launched a biometric smartcard security system that combines the technologies needed to authorise a user's physical access to corporate buildings with their network and application access.
Verification gadgets range from tokens to mobile-phone-based systems, but cost keeps them from catching on.
Banks are slowly moving towards deploying voice-authentication technologies in order to add an extra layer of security for their online and telephone banking customers.
China's 960 million citizens will be issued with digital smart ID cards, starting from next year.
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