NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 11/05/14 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) — Something that is all ways with is yourself. And using your own individual uniqueness as your security key is at the heart of the new SmartMetric Biometric activated credit and debit cards. Working with the new chip card technology that is used now around the world and being deployed in the United States, Smartmetric.com has added a fingerprint reader inside your credit card that adds biometric security to what has
NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 11/03/14 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) — The new to the USA credit card standard called EMV is not the impenetrable security fortress that many have been lead to believe. With banks and retailers spending huge sums in conversion of systems and readers over to the new chip card technology called EMV chip cards cracks in the defences of EMV as a secure system are already being seen. Recently many of the credit card numbers that had been stolen in the recent
NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 10/28/14 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) After a spate of data breaches among major US retailers, people have become most concerned about the security of their credit card details. According to a Gallup poll, 69 percent of respondents stated that they worry about having credit information stolen by hackers. Just 31 percent said they worry about getting mugged while 18 percent frequently or occasionally worry about getting murdered.Having a computer/smartphone
NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 10/24/14 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) According to a just-published USA consumer survey by Phoenix Marketing International*, the use of NFC in mobile phones is still facing an uphill battle to obtain market acceptance amongst phone users and will still very much remain a fringe payments platform in comparison to plastic payment cards.Some of the highlights of the consumer survey are:Despite industry efforts to communicate the security of NFC transactions,
NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 10/22/14 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) — According to a new survey nearly half of cardholders are vowing to avoid using plastic this holiday season, with 48 percent saying security breaches will make them more likely to pay with cash.As data breaches exposing consumer credit card, debit card and other personal information become more common, nearly half of cardholding shoppers say they–re reluctant this holiday season to return to stores that have been ha
NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 10/20/14 — SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) — It is a simple equation. Will a payment system that has less than 2% of point of sale readers capable of reading a mobile device displace an existing system that has nearly a 100% point of sale footprint. Simply put the existing payments infrastructure is built around cards so much so that the average mall shopper wouldn–t leave home without their piece of plastic. And until every mall retailer changes their point
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
