Updated with comments from Chase

Chase Card Services, a division of JPMorgan Chase & Co., announced it will issue a credit card with EMV chip technology.

Chase will first unveil chip-and-signature on the JPMorgan Palladium credit card in June, a card serving customers who frequently travel abroad, and to other Chase credit cards within the year. 

Bell ID announced the launch of the Bell ID EMV Token Manager, a new Web-based solution designed to coordinate and simplify the management of any type or combination of EMV token deployment.

The Bell ID EMV Token Manager performs data preparation for any EMV or chip payment application and for managing the entire life cycles of an EMV token, its associated applications and related cryptographic keys. This includes support for contact, contactless and dual interface cards as well as the option to support contactless applications in NFC enabled mobile devices. 

PIV, PIV-I cited as acceptable credentials

The Commonwealth of Virginia passed legislation that enables remote electronic notarization of documents. Virginia is the first state in the U.S. to pass such a law, says Tim Reiniger, who helped write the legislation and is director of the digital services group at FutureLaw, Richmond, Va.

Traditionally, notarization of documents takes place in person with individuals in the same room and they show state or federal identification and then conduct the transaction which is then notarized. The new law would enable such transaction to be conducted over a video and audio teleconference which would be recorded, with high-assurance credentials, such as the PIV and PIV-I. The digital certificates on the credential would also be used to sign the documents. 

Wells Fargo & Company is testing the Visa Smart Card, which includes the traditional magnetic stripe along with EMV chip technology, to help increase card acceptance worldwide. The pilot includes 15,000 Wells Fargo consumer credit card customers who travel internationally.

EMV is the global industry standard for chip payment technology. The microprocessor chip contains the information needed to use the card for payment, and is protected by various security features. Customers do not see much difference when using an EMV chip. 

Bank of North Carolina is now offering IronKey Trusted Access for Banking to help keep its business clients safe while banking online. With Trust Access, BNC provides customers an online banking experience isolated from financial malware, including key loggers, man-in-the-middle attacks and DNS attacks.

Following recommendations of the National Automated Clearinghouse Association and the FBI, Trusted Access separates users and their banking sessions from their potentially compromised desktop and applications. 

Identity and NFC rumors have staffers salivating for iPhone 5

I cannot tell a lie, I am an Apple fanboy. Most of us at AVISIAN Publishing are big fans of Apple products. We use them to write, edit and produce the magazines and Web sites we publish. Most of us also have iPhones and an iPad may be in my future (hint, hint boss).

Even though the iPhone 4 has only been out for a few months, the Apple rumor sites have been filled with predictions for iPhone 5. If near field communication technology isn’t included in that version of the phone it will be shocking as most seem to think it’s a given, though the rumors keep going back and forth on this topic.

Adding NFC and wallet app to the iPhone shouldn’t be that difficult, but more intriguing rumors suggest that the iPhone 5 will use NFC to enable remote computing on select Apple computers. 

Quintron Systems Inc., a provider of physical access control and intrusion detection systems, announced its new version of AccessNsite PACS provides a logical access control solution via Microsoft’s Active Directory.

The converged solution will require a user to have a smart card and enter a user name and password before enabling access to computer networks and files.