Reading public EMV data on a VISA card

The JavaEmvReader project provides a quick and simple way to parse the unsecured information on a VISA card - a bit easier than the alternative mentioned in a previous post.

One example application is described with the embedded element and Google Wallet in a Samsung Nexus S.

Accessing mobile SE in Android

Excellent, detailed tutorial on how to access the embedded secure element in an Android 4.x phone, and the followup on actually sending APDUs to it.

First CC EAL7 certified smart card - Samsung

Samsung has developed the world's first Common Criteria EAL7 certified smart card. This will certainly help boost the perception of the smart card as Trusted Execution Environment (TEE), and will only be good for m-commerce.