Villanova, University of San Francisco expanding trials in fall Andy Williams, Associate Editor, Avisian Publications Near field communication is going to college and finding the campus to be an ideal testing ground full of students hungry for the newest technology....
The recent incident where a 26-year-old woman passed herself off as a Columbia University student shows how lax security can be at many colleges and universities. Birva Patel had been posing as a third-year biomedical engineering student since December 2011....
Computer security doesn’t begin with the IT department at universities. It starts with students and their personal computers. Every year, the college IT department has to deal with an influx of new and returning students with laptops, desktops, smart phones...
Protecting yourself against ID theft probably isn’t even on a college student’s to-do list. Yet, young adults aged 18-24 are among the last to detect identity theft when compared to other age groups. It took them 132 days on average...
In an effort to boost security, India’s University of Hyderabad has closed down all its entrances, except the main gate, and installed a visitor management system–essentially a camera that produces an instant photo ID which is valid for a day...
A software vendor ended up with some personal information dating back to 1996 for thousands of former and current Oregon State University students, the university announced. In some cases, the information included a person’s name and Social Security number. In...
Lenel Systems International will be using HID Global’s EasyLobby Secure Visitor Management software integrated with Lenel’s OnGuard access control application to enable end users to grant different levels of access to visitors, contractors and employees. HID’s EasyLobby provides corporations, government...
The University of Iowa is rolling out a new version of its Iowa One card that integrates electronic door access using proximity technology. The school recently changed the banking vendor it uses for the card, which also serves as a...
Personal information on about 23,000 students at the University of North Florida, Jacksonville, may have been put at risk when someone gained access to the school’s database, university officials announced. Without disclosing specific details, the university said there is a...
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Great inverview on the Public Key Open Credential (PKOC) standard with ELATEC's Jason Ouellette, Chairman of the Board for the @PSIAlliance.
Attn: friends in the biometrics space. Nominations close Friday for the annual Women in Biometrics Awards. Take five minutes to recognize a colleague or even yourself. http://WomenInBiometrics.com
