Interpol urged all countries on Tuesday to obtain biometric data from fighters for the Islamic State and other extremist groups to help law enforcement track them down, especially when they return home.
Security
Nov 22, 2016
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It sounds like a great idea: Forget passwords, and instead lock your phone or computer with your fingerprint. It's a convenient form of security—though it's also perhaps not as safe as you'd think.
Security
Nov 21, 2016
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Hitachi today announced the development of highly-accurate finger vein authentication technology using the camera commonly integrated in the standard smartphone. This technology will enable the use of biometric authentication ...
Engineering
Oct 26, 2016
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VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed new kinds of encryption methods for improving the privacy protection of consumers to enable safer, more reliable and easier-to-use user authentication than current systems ...
Security
Sep 30, 2016
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Banks were the first to teach us that we couldn't live without passwords. Now they're showing us that we can.
Security
Jul 22, 2016
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A founder of Israeli software company Amdocs has been named chairman of the board of Israeli startup FST Biometrics.
Business
Jul 6, 2016
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In a multinational collaboration, researchers from the Universities of Luxembourg, Ljubljana and Vienna have developed a new method to produce unique reflecting patterns that can be applied on valuable objects. As these patterns ...
General Physics
Jun 10, 2016
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Civil liberties groups are criticizing an FBI proposal that they say would make it harder for people to know if personal information about them such as fingerprints and iris scans is on file.
Security
Jun 1, 2016
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A US judge on Thursday rejected a request by Facebook to toss out a civil suit accusing it of violating privacy with face-recognition software to help "tag" people in pictures.
Internet
May 6, 2016
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Having a smartphone unlock once it recognises your face or using a paypass machine that needs your fingerprint to finalise a purchase are becoming increasingly common, but are these the best way to stay secure?
Security
Apr 22, 2016
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