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Filtered by Authentication — 129 articles

Chander S Jeena

17 March 2025

3 min read

Authentication in Your Pocket

As Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, puts it, 'Your smartphone is now your passport, your bank, and your key to the digital world', There is no doubt about its increasing usage in our lives. In the authentication industry, smartphones are also important in facilitating the digital authentication of banknotes, identity and tax stamps. The authentication industry integrates digital security features that link high-security printing with the digital world. This article explores several recent innovations.

Authentication

Chander S Jeena

25 Feb. 2025

5 min read

News in Brief

Crane NXT has secured its first micro- optics contract through the OpSec Security channel with a luxury perfume brand.

Authentication

Chander S Jeena

23 Dec. 2024

4 min read

News in Brief

At High Security Printing™ Asia, held in Thailand, IDEMIA Smart Identity launched a new security feature called IDQR.

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Francisco Mandiola

23 Dec. 2024

4 min read

Fighting The Good Fight in Brazil

The Amazon rainforest, beautiful beaches, the song ‘Garota de Ipanema’, race car drivers and football players all come to mind when one thinks of Brazil. Unfortunately, the enormity and diversity of a country the size of Brazil, and the challenges that arise from trying to govern it, have given way to a country that is also known for high rates of crime and violence.

Authentication

Chander S Jeena

23 Dec. 2024

4 min read

2024 – The Year in Headlines

Report confirms falsification of medical devices in EU; election, democracy, and authentication; International Hologram Manufacturers Association (IHMA) launches Security Image Register (SIR) for the authentication industry....

Authentication

Chander S Jeena

26 Nov. 2024

4 min read

News In Brief

Uganda’s Speaker of Parliament, Anita Among, has urged lawmakers to expedite the passage of the Anticounterfeit Goods and Services (ACG&S) Bill 2023 before the end of the year.

Authentication

Nicola Sudan

25 Nov. 2024

2 min read

New Developments from Digimarc

Digimarc Corporation, a NASDAQ-listed provider of digital watermarking technologies, has announced new developments in two main areas: brand protection and plastics recycling.

Authentication

Chander S Jeena

23 Oct. 2024

3 min read

News in Brief

Securikett has unveiled new security labels featuring a cut indicator designed specifically for online shipping.

Authentication

23 Oct. 2024

2 min read

Authenticating Licence Plates with Liquid Crystals

Criminal activities involving counterfeit licence plates are increasing. In the United States, temporary plates have been misused for criminal activities, while in countries like Bolivia, the UK, France, and Australia, thousands of fake plates are reported annually.

Authentication

Chander S Jeena

30 Sept. 2024

4 min read

News in Brief

Anticounterfeit technology provider TrueMed has announced that a top- 10 global pharmaceutical company has selected TrueMed’s AI-driven solution to strengthen its counterfeit drug investigations.

Authentication

Chander S Jeena

30 Sept. 2024

3 min read

Three Countries Setting New Standards in Election Security

The year 2024 has introduced notable advances and shifts in election authentication technologies globally. Earlier in the year, we looked at the US state of Georgia’s move towards watermarked ballot papers and away from the use of QR codes to count ballots. This month, we describe how the Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Namibia are planning to secure their upcoming elections.

Authentication

Chander S Jeena

26 Aug. 2024

4 min read

News in Brief

A small label maker in Japan, Nakagawa Industry, has developed an anticounterfeting thread called Shirushi (meaning ‘mark’ or ‘sign’), which is printed with a brand’s name and woven into labels.

Authentication

Chander S Jeena

23 July 2024

4 min read

News in Brief

Addressing the increasing demand for a simple user experience for configuring and pairing IoT devices, Infineon Technologies has launched the OPTIGA™ Authenticate NBT, an NFC I2C bridge tag for contactless authentication and secured configuration.

Authentication

Chander S Jeena

13 June 2024

4 min read

News in Brief

With a focus on developing high end security pigments, Luminochem has released a demo video showing how its LuminoMark UV fluorescent pigments can be applied on medicine blisters for brand protection.

Authentication

Chander S Jeena

13 June 2024

1 min read

ISF Signs Agreement to Fight Illegal Seed Practices

At the recent World Seed Congress in the Netherlands, the International Seed Federation (ISF) signed what is being hailed as an ‘historic agreement’ with 12 organisations to combat illegal seed practices.

Authentication

Chander S Jeena

13 June 2024

1 min read

US Post Office Loses $150 Million in Counterfeit Stamps

Following on from last month’s Authentication & Brand News™ article on the mass counterfeiting of barcoded postage stamps in the UK, a woman from California, USA, has pleaded guilty to defrauding the United States Postal Service (USPS) out of more than $150 million in a counterfeit postage scam in Los Angeles.

Authentication

Chander S Jeena

20 May 2024

4 min read

Behind the Scenes of Authenticating Autographs

Following the sale at auction of a 1983 Apple business card signed by Steve Jobs, for the colossal price of $181,183 (the highest ever paid for a business card), we thought it an opportune time to explore the science behind authenticating autographs and collectibles.

Authentication

Chander S Jeena

20 May 2024

4 min read

News in Brief

A new labelling technology that prints a QR code directly onto food such as fruit has been developed by a team of researchers in South Korea, according to an announcement by the country’s Ministry of Science and ICT.

Authentication

Chander S Jeena

20 May 2024

2 min read

Novel Approach to Detect Counterfeit Coins

Researchers at the Centre for Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (CENPARMI), at Concordia University, Canada, have developed a novel framework that uses image-mining techniques and machine learning algorithms to identify flaws in counterfeit coins.

Authentication

Nicola Sudan

7 May 2024

3 min read

StockX Values Human Verifiers and RFID Tags to Tackle Counterfeiting

In April, StockX, the online reseller (primarily of sneakers), released its first ‘Brand Protection & Customer Trust Report’, offering a view into its anticounterfeiting and fraud prevention activities in 2023.

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Authentication in Your Pocket

News in Brief

News in Brief

Fighting The Good Fight in Brazil

2024 – The Year in Headlines

News In Brief

New Developments from Digimarc

News in Brief

Authenticating Licence Plates with Liquid Crystals

News in Brief

Three Countries Setting New Standards in Election Security

News in Brief

News in Brief

News in Brief

ISF Signs Agreement to Fight Illegal Seed Practices

US Post Office Loses $150 Million in Counterfeit Stamps

Behind the Scenes of Authenticating Autographs

News in Brief

Novel Approach to Detect Counterfeit Coins

StockX Values Human Verifiers and RFID Tags to Tackle Counterfeiting

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