NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 10/17/14 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) — According to a report on cybercrime published earlier this year by the Rand Corporation, card theft is already probably greater than the money involved in the international drug trade. Speaking on Wednesday, SmartMetric–s President and CEO, Chaya Hendrick, said that the losses and direct effects on the economy of card fraud and related identity theft are at such levels to be seen as a national finance security thre
NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 10/08/14 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) — The recent 70 million account data breach at JP Morgan Chase reveals more than the precarious safety of our information. It has come to light that the breach was caused by data thieves obtaining access to the Bank–s servers using an administrator–s password. SmartMetric says the reliance at all levels of data security on passwords is like relying on a bow and arrow for defence in the age of the machine gun. Speaki
NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 10/06/14 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) The cost to the economy, and consumers in particular, of the recent explosion in data breaches at some of the biggest consumer enterprises in the United States goes way beyond the direct fraud losses that flow from the fraudulent use of credit card information to make in person and online purchases. According to a 2014 published report by Javelin Strategy & Research, 1 in 3 people who received data breach notificat
NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 10/01/14 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) According to a new national survey* identity theft, 70 percent and personal cybersecurity, 61 percent are the security issues of greatest concern to Americans.These fears are most likely grounded in experience as nearly 39 percent of those surveyed have suffered a personal security breach, such as identity theft, unauthorized use of credit card information or email/social media account hacking.The fear of identity thef
NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 09/30/14 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) Alternative payment technologies such as mobile phones using wallet based systems have a long way to go before they even come close to eclipsing plastic credit cards, let alone replacing them, says the President & CEO of SmartMetric, Inc. Chaya Hendrick today.According to SmartMetric, the biggest problems with phones as a payment replacement to cards is phones are not as trusted as cards, even in the light of the r
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL — (Marketwired) — 09/24/14 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) — Speaking today from SmartMetric–s electronic engineering center in Tel Aviv, Israel, the company President & CEO, Chaya Hendrick, said SmartMetric has turned the credit card into a mobile device enabling multiple functions while using its embedded biometric fingerprint scanner to protect transactions and information stored inside the user–s credit or debit card. Using a powerful Cortex processor inside the
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL — (Marketwired) — 09/22/14 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) — Speaking today from SmartMetric–s electronic engineering center in Tel Aviv, Israel the company President & CEO Chaya Hendrick said the company has achieved a sub one second fingerprint scan with its miniature fingerprint scanner embedded inside an EMV chip credit/debit card. This has been achieved using a Cortex processor that has reduced power consumption and therefore gives the cards battery an extended
NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 09/18/14 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) — The exposure and theft of credit card information from 60 million Home Depot customers could lead to over 3 billion in fraudulent credit card purchasers according to a report by a Canadian news service, CNC News. The President & CEO of SmartMetric Chaya Hendrick said today, "This is just another example of the very serious breach of trust between consumers and the credit cards they use every day and the con
LAS VEGAS, NV — (Marketwired) — 09/15/14 — (OTCQB: SMME) today announced that the Company has been invited to present at the National Investment Banking Association–s (NIBA) 132nd Investment Conference to be held in New York City on September 15-17, 2014.NIBA is a national not-for-profit trade association of regional and independent brokerages, investment banking firms, institutional investors and related capital market service providers. Since its inception, NIBA member firms have success
