Illinois Senate Democrats hope to tackle SNAP benefit fraud by requiring the state to use smart chip cards instead of ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Thomas J Catalano is a CFP and Registered Investment Adviser with the state of South ...

U.S. Department of Interior selects Philips' advanced contactless smart card chip technology to heighten secure access to national facilities U.S. Department of Interior selects Philips' advanced ...

Royal Philips Electronics announces that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has selected Philips' advanced MIFARE® DESFire contactless chip technology to enable secure smart card ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek wants state lawmakers to take steps to strengthen the security of Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards, which have been a persistent target for skimming ...

TOKYO — Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) is developing new smart card and fingerprint sensor technologies that could bring greater convenience to various types of security application, the company ...

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has begun producing a smart card IC (integrated circuit) chip that the company claims contains a larger amount of erasable and programmable memory than those of ...

Chip Cards vs. Magnetic Stripes: Is One More Likely to Fall for Scams? Think back to the last time you paid for something at a store. Did you swipe your card, or did you dip it into the terminal? The ...

Smart card chips are found in the SIMs (Subscriber Identity Modules) used for customer authentication in every GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) phone and in recently issued bank cards ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Eric's career includes extensive work in both public and corporate accounting with ...