State governments should strongly consider using smart card technology to comply with the requirements of the federal REAL ID Act, the Smart Card Alliance Identity Council states in a new position ...

The recent security breach at Target – where hackers made off with 40 million credit and debit card numbers as well as encrypted PIN data-- has focused renewed attention on the vulnerability of ...

Smart card technology will remain a priority for the Secure Technology Alliance, while the scope of technologies that the organization focuses on broadens to include embedded chip technology and ...

Smart Card technology has become the universal term for an Integrated Circuit Card (ICC) that includes a magnetic stripe used to store and transmit payment data to a service provider and a financial ...

Target CFO John Mulligan, in testimony before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary in Washington, D.C., announced the company will be accelerating its implementation of smart card technology by more ...

For almost 15 years, contactless RFID cards and tags have been changing the access control landscape. While the market has grown exponentially over that period, it is only recently ...

What is a smart card? Right now, smart cards with EMV technology protect banking info every day. Learn more about this tech and the future of banking security.

“Incorporating smart card reader technology into desktop and notebook computers is an important step to help build the infrastructure necessary for secure information exchange,” said Shalini Chowdhary ...

Secure Technology Alliance leader, Randy Vanderhoof, outlines the organization's expansion from its roots as the Smart Card Alliance in this podcast.

A new software specification promises to save banks months of time that would otherwise be spent reconfiguring their Web servers and databases to handle online payments.

Visa U.S.A. said it has completed the development of hardware that retailers need to process smart card transactions, but terminal software that's required before the smart cards can be read by ...