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New Romanian Banknote Honors First Female Army Officer
On 1 December 2021, the National Bank of Romania (NBR) put into circulation a new 20-lei banknote. It is the first Romanian banknote to feature a...
Azerbaijan Introduces Commemorative Banknote
The Republic of Azerbaijan introduced a commemorative 500-Manat banknote on 4 November 2021 in honor of the “anniversary of the historic Victory of the...
New banknote holograms win International Security Awards
A holographic device that provides improved protection for banknotes against the risk of counterfeiting, has won an international award organised by industry trade body,...
Simultaneous Offset: Strategies for Optimization (Part 1)
Introduction
In printing parlance, the term “registration” is used to describe the alignment of images applied in multiple printing steps. Good alignment of plate images...
Is Cybersecurity Insurance a Double-Edged Sword?
With Cybersecurity threat variants starting to go out of control, especially threats of Ransomware, SMBs are scared for the simple reason that they could...
Update: Ontario to Launch Digital ID in 2022
In September 2021, the Canadian province of Ontario announced that it would launch a digital ID for its residents by the end of the year,...
IATA 2021 Global Passenger Survey Results
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced the results of its 2021 Global Passenger Survey (GPS), and the conclusions are interesting. The primary...
Detecting Counterfeit Money in the Blink of an Eye – Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, the Four Nations Group described their research to determine how public users benefit from the considerable investment by...
Nepal to Start Issuing e-Passports
Starting 17 November 2021, Nepal’s Department of Passport will start issuing electronic passports (e-passports) to citizens who apply for new or renewed passports.
Until now,...
Deploying Endpoint Detection & Response: 5 Best Practices
The Cyberattacker of today is no rush to launch their threat vectors. Unlike their previous “smash and grab” style, Cyberattackers now take their time...
Advanced Generative AI: The Variational Autoencoder
In this series of articles, author Ravi Das examines some of the more advanced topics that support Generative AI. In this first article, he...
LIVE BLOG: Hawaii launches mobile driver’s license/ID card for Apple devices and more news…
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Kenya Releases an Updated Series of Banknotes
The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has made some updates to all denominations of the Kenyan banknotes. All denominations are affected, including the 50...
A Sneak Peek at Indonesia’s New-and-Improved Passport
Indonesia plans to celebrate its 80th Independence Day next year by issuing a redesigned passport to its citizens. The Directorate General of the Ministry...
Optimizing Serialization: Part 4
The first three articles in this series reviewed contemporary security document serial number design strategies related to letterpress printing technology, security inks and font...