biometrics

Mastercard has added fingerprint sensors to its payment cards, in an attempt to make face-to-face payments more convenient and more secure. How does it work? “A …

No two people are believed to have identical fingerprints, but researchers at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering and Michigan State University College of …

Choosing a unique, complex and long enough password that will still be easy to remember is a big challenge for most users, and most of them would happily opt for biometric …

The biometrics market has reached a tipping point. Driven largely by the confluence of organizations’ desires to better authenticate or identify users and users’ distaste for …

Kaspersky Lab experts investigated how cybercriminals could exploit new biometric ATM authentication technologies planned by banks. While many financial organizations consider …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, 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 …