From: Piotr.Janczewski@nz.ey.com Sent: Monday, 24 August 2009 9:04 a.m. To: undisclosed-recipients: Subject: NZISF Meeting, 9th September ======================================================== =================================================== To register for this seminar, click here To place your name on the NZISF mailing list, click here To remove your name from the NZISF mailing list, click here New Zealand Information Security Forum (NZISF) cordially invites you and your friends to the September 2009 breakfast meeting: Venue: The Auckland Club, 34 Shortland St, CBD, Auckland Date: Wednesday, 9 September 2009 Time: 7:30 am Cost: NZISF, NZSA and NZCS members - $30, students - $20, all others - $ 35, Cash or cheque, no credit cards. Important note: Lech Janczewski is out of the country. The meeting will be chaired Mr Piotr Janczewski. Please direct to him all the booking and correspondence related to this meeting (contact piotr.janczewski@nz.ey.com or 0274899155) Topic: What does your passport say about you? Most new passports now contain an RFID (radio frequency identification) tag that allows your passport to communicate with immigration service computers at airports and other control points. Although such tags do not currently contain personal information, when combined with other RFID tags carried by you (e.g. credit cards, driving licence), it may be possible for personal information to be gathered about you that could be used for identity theft. Also, the incorporation of 'smart RFID' in future may lead to identity cards that can be used for a variety of purposes, including banking, as the demand for biometric verification grows. The aim of this talk is to explore with the audience both the technological advantages of RFID as well as potential misuses of the technology for the purposes of breaching privacy and security. The question of who is responsible is also raised should the technology be shown to be insecure, raising issues of liability Presenter: Professor Ajit Narayanan Head of School of Computing and Mathematical Science Auckland University of Technology After graduating from the University of Aston in Birmingham with a BSc in computer science, philosophy and linguistics in 1973, Ajit Narayanan completed his PhD in philosophical linguistics and formal grammars in 1976 at Exeter University. He was appointed Lecturer in the newly created Department of Computer Science at the University of Exeter in 1980, became Head of Department during the late 1980s and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1990. He was elected Dean of Science in 1996 and Dean of the Undergraduate Faculty from 1998 to 2002. He was awarded a personal chair in 2001 for his research in artificial intelligence, quantum computing and bioinformatics. In 2005 he joined the University of Portsmouth as Head of the School of Computing before coming to AUT in July 2007. He was also a Visiting Lecturer and Visiting Professor at the University of Skövde in Sweden between 1989 and 2005. This meeting of the New Zealand Information Security Forum is proudly sponsored by: ASB (www.asb.co.nz). --