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SmartMetric Says the Day of the Password Is Numbered — JP Morgan Chase Data Breach Shows the Failure of Passwords

By Publisher on October 8, 2014 Networking, Picture Gallery

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

SmartMetric Warns of an Explosion in Identity Theft and Account Takeover as a Result of the Recent Gigantic JP Morgan, Home Depot and Target Data Breaches — Report Shows That 1 in 3 People Who Received Data Breach Notices Became a Victim of Identity Frau

By Publisher on October 6, 2014 Internet, Picture Gallery

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

More Americans Fear Identity Theft Than Terrorism With Nearly 39 Percent of American Victims of a Personal Security Breach — SmartMetric Revolutionary Biometric Credit Card Technology to Help Consumers in Data Theft Protection

By Publisher on October 1, 2014 Internet, Picture Gallery

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

SmartMetric Says Plastic Cards to Dominate Payments Owing to Installed Readers and Fear of Alternatives Such as Mobile Phones — Making Plastic Cards Safer With Card Implanted Biometrics Provides a Safer Card That Uses Existing Payments Infrastructure

By Publisher on September 30, 2014 Picture Gallery, Software

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

Your Credit Card as a Mobile Device — SmartMetric Creates an Intelligent Credit Card With Its Own Built-In Processor

By Publisher on September 24, 2014 Internet, Picture Gallery

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

SmartMetric Inside Credit Card Fingerprint Reader Has Achieved Sub 1 Second Fingerprint Match and Verification That Is Used to Validate the Identity of the Card User and Subsequently Activate Credit Cards EMV Chip

By Publisher on September 22, 2014 Internet, Picture Gallery

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

SmartMetric Says the Home Depot Credit Card Information Theft in Canada Shows That EMV Chip Card Technology Alone Will Not Protect Consumers From Future Theft – It Is Estimated the Latest Card Data Theft Could Cost More Than $3 Billion

By Publisher on September 18, 2014 Internet, Picture Gallery

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

SmartMetric to Present at the National Investment Banking Association–s 132nd Investment Conference

By Publisher on September 15, 2014 Picture Gallery, Software

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

Shift4 to Simplify Complex and Costly Migration to U.S. EMV

By Publisher on June 19, 2013 Internet, Picture Gallery

LAS VEGAS, NV — (Marketwired) — 06/19/13 — , the world-s largest independent payment gateway, today issued an to merchants and payments industry players highlighting Shift4-s ability to drastically reduce the time and costs involved in developing and certifying EMV-ready solutions for the U.S. market."EMV, Chip and PIN, Smart Card — no matter what you call it, there-s no sugar-coating the fact that bringing this technology to the U.S. is going to be an expensive and convoluted process

Ingenico and Timbec Partner in Canada to Expand Secure Indoor Self-Service Payment Acceptance

By Publisher on March 4, 2013 Hardware, Picture Gallery

TORONTO, ONTARIO — (Marketwire) — 03/04/13 — Editors Note: There is a photo associated with this press release.Ingenico (Euronext: FR0000125346 – ING), leading worldwide provider of payment solutions today announces a strategic partnership with Timbec Inc., a Montreal-based interactive indoor kiosk solution provider, to jointly market Ingenico-s new generation payment solutions in the growing dynamic self-service unattended payment acceptance vertical in Canada.Due to Timbec-s manufacturing