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- Microscope-wielding boffins crack Tube smartcard - Security researchers say they've found a way to crack the encryption used to protect a widely-used smartcard in a matter of minutes, making it possible for them to quickly and cheaply clone the cards that are used to secure office buildings and automate the collection of mass transportation fares.
Source: The Register [12th Mar 2008]
- MoD lost 11,000 military ID cards - A new data security row has hit the Ministry of Defence after it emerged that an "extraordinary" 11,000 military ID cards have been lost or stolen in the past two years.
Source: The Telegraph [12th Mar 2008]
- Heathrow airport first to fingerprint - Millions of British airline passengers face mandatory fingerprinting before being allowed to board flights when Heathrow’s Terminal 5 opens later this month.
Source: The Telegraph [8th Mar 2008]
- Home Secretary in ID card gaffe - Security experts have rubbished claims by the Home Secretary that databases for the controversial National ID Cards will be "unhackable" because they are being kept off the public internet.In an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Thursday, Jacqui Smith said "none of the [ID card] databases will be online, so it won't be possible to hack into them". Experts, such as GCHQ accredited penetration testing firm SecureTest, said the Home Secretary's claims demonstrate complete lack of understanding of the security issues affecting databases.
Source: The Register [7th Mar 2008]
- UK Government rethink on identity cards plans - The government has set out changes to its planned identity scheme - including allowing people to use passports or driving licences as ID cards. Most people will not now have to give their fingerprints when getting a passport until 2011/12 - three years later than had previously been planned. And plans to force passport applicants to get an ID card have been dropped. The exception will be airport and other workers in security-sensitive jobs who will need an ID card from 2009.
Source: BBC News [6th Mar 2008]
- EU plans to require biometrics of all non-European visitors - All non-Europeans would need to submit biometric data before crossing Europe's frontiers under sweeping European Union proposals to combat illegal migration, terrorism and organized crime that are to be outlined this week.
Source: IHT [11th Feb 2008]
- Companies abandon ID card project - Two prominent companies have pulled out of the procurement process for the controversial multi-billion pound identity card programme amid growing concerns that the government is planning to delay the roll-out of the project.
Source: Financial Times [24th Jan 2008]
- FBI wants instant access to British identity data - Americans seek international database to carry iris, palm and finger prints. Senior British police officials are talking to the FBI about an international database to hunt for major criminals and terrorists.
Source: The Guardian [15th Jan 2008]
- ID profiles worth far more than credit card details to crooks - Identity profiles are worth far more on the digital underground than credit card details.
Source: The Register [24th Nov 2007]
- Now for ID cards - and the biometric blues - Tsutomu Matsumoto is a Japanese mathematician, a cryptographer who works on security, and he decided to see if he could fool the machines which identify you by your fingerprint. This home science project costs about £20.
Source: The Guardian [24th Nov 2007]
- The True Cost of ID Cards - The true cost of ID cards are not just to the taxpayer's purse but go much deeper and have a truly disturbing impact, threatening our way of life forever. You will not only pay financially but it will also cost you personal privacy and possibility your identity.
Source: RINF Alternative News [13th Sep 2007]
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