biometrics

Iris scanning: A secure ID trend for smartphones?

September 23, 2016

The release of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 sparked something positive – iris scanning. ABI Research forecasts global shipments of smartphones equipped with iris scanners …

Can biometrics and the FIDO Alliance save us from password overload?

September 6, 2016

All the available evidence indicates our password-based security system is broken. The human brain can only remember so much and its memory capacity is being pushed to the …

How the biometrics market is entering the evolving IoT ecosystem

April 27, 2016

By 2021, the biometrics market will reach $30 billion and shift its revenue focus, moving away from the governmental sector to emphasize opportunities in the consumer and …

A password for your eyewear computer: The sound of your skull

April 22, 2016

Could the unique frequency response your skull makes when hit with an ultrasonic signal be a good way for authenticating yourself to an eyewear computer (e.g. Google Glass, or …

US passport and visa database open to intrusion?

April 4, 2016

The Consular Consolidated Database (CCD), which contains over 290 million passport-related records, 184 million visa records, and 25 million records on US citizens living …

Biometric tech uses sound to distinguish ear cavity shape

March 10, 2016

NEC is developing a new biometric personal identification technology that uses the resonation of sound determined by the shape of human ear cavities to distinguish …

Balabit’s Blindspotter extends behavior analysis with biometrics

March 2, 2016

Balabit, best known as “the creator of syslog-ng,” announced the release of Blindspotter version 2016.03 at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. The new version of its …

Mastercard’s Selfie ID: Playing Russian Roulette with consumer identities?

February 24, 2016

At this week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, MasterCard announced it will accept selfie photographs and fingerprints as an alternative to passwords when verifying …

HTC phone stores fingerprints in easily accessible plaintext

August 10, 2015

Pressing a finger on your mobile phone’s fingerprint scanner has to be the easiest, most seamless way to unlock the device, and this is why more and more manufacturers …

Mastercard is trying out purchase verification with selfies

July 3, 2015

Five hundred US MasterCard users will soon be testing out the company’s new system for quickly processing of digital payments, without having to input a PIN or …

Yahoo develops cheap, effective biometric smartphone authentication

April 30, 2015

A group of Yahoo researchers have demonstrated that apart from fingerprints, other parts of the human body, such as ears, fists, palms and fingers, can also be successfully …

The invasion of biometrics

April 27, 2015

Depending on where you stand biometrics is a good thing or something that is downright sinister. The truth is that to a degree biometric technologies have a valid and useful …