• China, INTERPOL celebrate security success during Summer Games

    The Summer Games and the Paralympics passed without any major security incident; China says this highlights the success of security efforts for the Games, in particular the collaboration between China and INTERPOL

  • Colorado to remove Social Security numbers from public Web sites

    Colorado attorney general asks counties to remove documents containing Social Security numbers from public Web sites, saying that the “The availability of this information online increases the possibility of Colorado citizens becoming the victims of identity theft”

  • New York State offers an enhanced driver's license

    New York State leads the nation in the adoption of enhanced license technology, and state residents may now apply for an enhanced driver’s license; they have an incentive to do so, because beginning 1 June 2009 U.S. citizens will have to present either a passport or an enhanced driver’s license when re-entering the U.S. from Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, and the Caribbean

  • DHS: Progress and priorities, I

    Since its creation more than five years ago, DHS has made significant progress — uneven progress — in protecting the United States from dangerous people and goods, protecting the U.S. critical infrastructure, strengthen emergency response, and unifying department operations

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  • How to create the perfect fake identity

    If you have the patience and time, you can use “identity farming” to create the perfect fake identity; IT security maven Bruce Schneier writes that the ever more central role data — and data shadow — are playing in our lives now makes it possible

  • Taiwan nabs major hacking ring

    Criminal ring steals personal data of more than 50 million individuals — including Taiwan’s current and former presidents, and the current Taiwanese chief of police

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  • Medical identity thefts on the rise

    The move from paper to digital patient records opens new opportunities for identity thieves

  • U.K. national biometric ID faces another hurdle: senior citizens

    Automatic biometric scanners would struggle to read elderly people’s prints because the ridges on the pads of their fingers are often not well defined

  • Verified Identity Pass gets back to RT business

    TSA suspended company from the Registered Traveler program after one of its computer, containing the personal details of 33,000 customers who had registered for the program, was lost; lap top was recovered and handed over to TSA for forensic review; company now allowed to register passengers

  • Microchips in e-passports easily forged

    Dutch researcher uses his own software, a publicly available programming code, a £40 card reader, and two £10 RFID chips to clone and manipulate two passport chips to a point at which they were ready to be planted inside fake or stolen paper passports; the altered chips were then passed as genuine by passport reader software used by the UN agency that sets standards for e-passports; the researcher took less than an hour to alter the chips

  • U.K. £18 million National Identity Register deal awarded

    French firm Thales awarded £18 million to design, build, test, and operate an early version of the U.K. National Identity Register (NIR) and ID card application system

  • Germany to introduce an electronic ID card

    The German federal government plans to introduce an electronic ID card similar to the electronic passport already in use; for the industry, the device will create a significant additional business

  • New Mexico's new driver's license

    The state’s new licenses are several steps closer to what the Patriot Act will require in the way of approved identification

  • Israel to create biometric database of citizens

    Government approves bill calling for creation of database of all Israeli citizens; data to include fingerprints, computerized facial features embedded on IDs, passports

  • No need for an ID to board a plane

    TSA takes into account the fact that IDs may be lost or misplaced, and has devised a policy which allows for identity verification without IDs