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RSS fingerprintBiometric fingerprint checks for UK visas
News All applicants for visas to enter the UK will face biometric fingerprint checks from the end of this month. The fingerprint database contains the records of more than one million previous visa... [14 Jan 2008]
Clothing recognition tech nabs armed robber
Case Study However, in one of the robberies, one of the individuals discarded a piece of paper from which the police were able to recover a fingerprint. Similar clothes were taken from the suspect's home, after police had... [13 Dec 2007]
A Method of Identify OS Based on TCP/IP Fingerprint
White Paper This paper present a method that classify the fingerprint of protocol, use the frame to describe the fingerprint in order to create the frame system, get the information of host to match the system to... [06 Dec 2007]
Weaknesses in Wireless LAN Session Containment
White Paper Using the traffic analysis techniques described in this paper, an attacker can fingerprint the type of wireless LAN intrusion detection system deployed to monitor and protect the wireless network, and potentially evade... [06 Dec 2007]
Hybrid Algorithm for Indoor Positioning Using Wireless LAN
White Paper It first formulates the RF propagation loss in a nonlinear, censored regression model and adjusts the regression function to the observed signal strength in the fingerprint dataset. Locating an indoor mobile station... [06 Dec 2007]
Can biometrics secure the public's data?
Comment Fingerprint or iris recognition is being used at some organisations to enable employees to log on to the network, thus ensuring only authorised employees can access certain parts of the network. There are numerous... [23 Nov 2007]
Leader: It's time for a data breach disclosure law
Leader The proposed national identity register for the ID card scheme will store even more data, including biometric information - what happens if your fingerprint records fall into the hands of identity thieves? [22 Nov 2007]
ID cards will be secure, insists Home Office
News The Home Office spokesman added: "No one is saying the scheme will be a panacea but by linking unique biometric information - initially face, fingerprint and possibly in future iris too - to one set of biographical... [25 Oct 2007]
Named: ID cards scheme supplier hopefuls
News Suppliers will be required to design, build, deploy and service various projects - including an overhaul of the Immigration and Asylum Fingerprint System - as well as offer business process and IT outsourcing. [22 Oct 2007]
Photos: The rise of the luxury mobile
Photo Developed in collaboration with Sagem, the phone has been designed along minimalist, almost utilitarian, lines but it does have one fancy feature: a fingerprint reader for use as a security device. Designer brands are... [10 Oct 2007]
UK passports face massive price hike
News The report stated: "Larger capacity chips will be needed to hold the basic data and fingerprint image and more locations and additional staff will be needed to collect biometric data from adult applicants. [10 Oct 2007]
Biometrics wing their way into Gatwick
News Immigration minister Liam Byrne said fingerprint visas are fast becoming "our first line in defence against illegal immigration" as they establish people's identities "beyond doubt" before they enter the UK. [09 Oct 2007]
Biometric visas get $4.4m tech boost
News The UK biometrics visa programme has awarded a $4.4m contract to Cross Match Technologies for the supply of fingerprint scanners to UK overseas missions. The US-based biometric identity company will provide British... [24 Sep 2007]
100,000 non-UK fingerprints recorded each month
News Immigration minister Liam Byrne said it's not just abroad that these fingerprint records are used. The government is recording over 100,000 fingerprints a month from foreign nationals while overseas and applying to come... [17 Sep 2007]
Sony USB device harbouring "nasty" rootkit
News The Micro Vault drive is a USB device featuring fingerprint-reading software intended to add an extra layer of security for PC users. Sony says the rootkit-like behaviour of a device driver used to run its biometric... [03 Sep 2007]
