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By Salvatore D’Agostino, CSCIP, IDmachines

2012 promises to continue to advance the case for and the solutions to address the need for trusted interoperable, privacy-enhancing digital identities.

With global fraud on the order of $1 trillion – not a typo – no one really questions the important role identity plays. And this in turn drives the business case for strong authentication and trusted authorization across enterprise, e-commerce and device related applications.

So expect in 2012 to see:

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Air Mobility Command plans to replace paper manuals and navigation charts with electronic flight bags.

Using smart phones for online banking and shopping has been promoted as the next big thing, but adoption has been slow, partly due to the fact that smart phones have security issues. Scientific American reports that this might change with the development of quantum cryptography.

Researchers at Los Alamos National Lab have revamped quantum encryption to make it more viable for smart phone usage by developing a minitransmitter to hold the encryption key on one photon. If a hacker attempts to change the quantum information in the photon during a transaction, the transaction is cancelled.

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Tweets are taking the place of phone trees, knocking on doors and even email blasts.

Large-scale Army battlefield network tests last summer did not include mobile operation scenarios and did not feature robust attacks against the networks, the Defense Department's test organization said in its annual report to ...

Members of hacker collective Anonymous breached a conference call FBI investigators held with their counterparts at Scotland Yard to discuss the investigation into the group's activities. Anonymous broadcast email and login data from ...

Diners Club Spain has chosen Gemalto to help it migrate to EMV in 2012. In this effort, Gemalto is providing consulting and personalization services to Diners Club Spain.

So far, Diners Club Spain and Gemalto have announced the availability of an approved EMV application for Diners Club. Gemalto is also providing DDA payment cards that are compliant with the Discover Financial Services D-PAS.

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The controversial advocacy group Demand Progress can't get enough of Lamar Smith. ...

The key to developing a successful shared services strategy is figuring out where pooling resources can bring the greatest benefit and making a solid business case for it, government information technology leaders said Thursday. ...

The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command said it plans the first installation of its new shipboard network on a destroyer before the end of September, pending completion of an operational assessment of the system developed by ...

Three days before the 2012 Super Bowl, federal officials said they have seized more than 300 websites accused of selling fake merchandise or illegally streaming sports games. ...

Industry pushback and politics have stymied efforts to expand authority over critical networks, cyber expert says.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology announced a competition to award a approximately $10 million for pilot projects to accelerate progress toward improved systems for interoperable, trusted online credentials that go beyond simple user IDs and passwords.

The NIST-hosted national program office will manage the competition for the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace. According to the Federal Funding Opportunity, NIST anticipates funding five to eight projects for up to two years in the range of approximately $1.25 million to $2 million per year, though proposals requesting smaller amounts may be considered. The deadline for submitting initial proposals is March 7.

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ImageWare Systems announced that the Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), an agency that oversees Los Angeles International (LAX) airport, LA/Ontario International airport and Van Nuys airport, has placed an order for a number of biometric identity management and credentialing solutions.

Among the solutions LAWA is intending to implement at their airport locations are ImageWare’s Quick capture, which is a multi-biometric solutions and various parts of their Identity Service Bus suite, which will be used for identity management and credential issuance.

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Facebook warned that burdensome regulation and other challenges could mean "there is no guarantee" that the social network won't go the way of competitors like MySpace or Friendster, according to documents the company filed on ...

A House panel on Wednesday approved a bipartisan bill that would make the Homeland Security Department responsible for gauging the security of private networks. ...

On Tuesday, the Pentagon detailed $18 million worth of new projects focused primarily on managing battlefield heating and air conditioning systems to reduce energy consumption. ...

The initial award is to install communications infrastructure on 54 ships.

More than 80 percent of federal information technology leaders say their agencies have implemented some manner of server virtualization and, overall, the government is saving nearly 20 percent of its IT budget through virtualization, ...

Flight demonstrations may be pricey, but when industry partners are willing to pay for them they can help speed new NASA technology from the lab into real-life use, experts said in a report issued on Wednesday. ...