After reports last week that Gemalto had seen the encryption keys for its SIM cards stolen by the NSA and GCHQ , the Dutch company has officially responded that its products are secure. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

“It’s one of the great paradoxes of our time that the very technologies that empower us to do great good can also be used to undermine us and inflict great harm.”Those were the words of U.S. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office published Thursday (Feb. 19) new patent applications filed by Apple that hint at the technology conglomerate’s latest focuses. Source: http://www.pymnts.com

Less than half of the insurance providers surveyed said they currently use biometrics solutions for cyber security, which include fingerprint verification. Source: http://www.biometricupdate.com

Travelers will find it easier to use credit cards overseas as American banks start switching to “chip and PIN” or “chip and signature” cards. Source: old.seattletimes.com

Air Kazakhstan (9Y, Almaty) may yet be equipped with Dash 8-400s Umurzak Shukeyev has said, adding that a new round of talks with various aircraft manufacturers has now opened. Source: http://www.ch-aviation.com

By Håvard Halland, Alan Gelb, and Silvana Tordo  Following the recent discoveries of large oil and gas deposits in East Africa, a number of countries in the Source: cfi.co

Kazakh First Deputy Prime Minister Bakytzhan Sagintayev held a meeting of the government’s interagency commission to discuss regulation of business in the country, particularly President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s request to halve the number of permits… Source: http://www.astanatimes.com

Kazakhstan Adds Gold With Ukraine as Russia Halts PurchasesBloomberg“There’s been a small but nonetheless increasing trend that central banks want to hold gold,” said Wayne Gordon, an analyst at UBS Group AG in Singapore. Source: http://www.bloomberg.com

VIENNA (Reuters) – Rakhat Aliyev, the Kazakh president’s former son-in-law turned opponent, has been found dead in an Austrian jail after killing himself, a court spokeswoman said on Tuesday. Source: http://www.reuters.com