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The attack technique described several weeks ago by researchers is probably being used in the wild, says security firm

Gartner analyst:

Users pick easy-to-crack passwords like the name of a dog or a favourite movie, but multi-factor authentication may end the insanity

Frost & Sullivan forecasts the market will grow by 35 per cent per year, and one driver will be the security advantages of the hardware, despite a widespread perception that data on contactless cards can be skimmed by crooks

Two years ago U.S. President George Bush ordered the federal government to be ready by this Oct. 27 to issue a standards-based identity card that federal employees and government contractors would use for computer and building access.

U.S. federal officials are looking to outsource the IT infrastructure that's needed to support a planned smart-card system for authenticating employees governmentwide. And the outsourcing plan makes sense, given the scale and complexity of the smart-card initiative, IT analysts said last week. rn

U.S. federal officials are looking to outsource the IT infrastructure that's needed to support a planned smart-card system for authenticating employees governmentwide. And the outsourcing plan makes sense, given the scale and complexity of the smart-card initiative, IT analysts said last week.

The United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) is to issue identity smart cards to its two million population beginning in the middle of 2004, according to smart card vendor Gemplus International SA, which has won the contract to supply the system in conjunction with Sagem SA.