biometrics
Can biometrics and the FIDO Alliance save us from password overload?
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
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
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?
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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 …
Behavioral biometrics: The password you can’t forget
This year’s Mobile World Congress featured more biometrics technology than ever before, with the launch of Google’s Android Pay and Samsung Pay both unveiling …