Software giant tightens up in-house security after hacker break-in. With notable exceptions such as the U.S. Defense Department, smart cards that contain encryption-based digital certificates for ...

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Microsoft to install Gemplus smart card software, readers Gemplus International S.A.the world's leading provider of smart card solutions, today announces the delivery of smart cards, readers, and ...

Microsoft Tuesday released the next beta of its Certificate Lifecycle Manager, a key piece of security infrastructure that supports deployments of two-factor authentication, such as smart cards.

Software developers looking to piggyback on Microsoft’s .NET framework to provide two factor authentication for their clients need look no further than France-based Axalto’s new .NET smart cards. This ...

When people envision one-card initiatives (programs to implement a single smart card for both physical and logical security), most often they envision the technical aspects of the projects. However, a ...

Secure identity provider HID Global’s Crescendo smart cards, an off-the-shelf smart card that integrates with various Microsoft operating systems, has also earned the “Works With Windows Vista” ...

Microsoft has released an out of band non-security update to fix a bug in some business printers and scanners that use a smart card for authentication. The update, KB5005394, addresses an issue in ...

Czech academics have detailed this week a new cryptographic attack that can recover private keys used to sign operations on some smart cards and cryptographic libraries. Once obtained, the private key ...