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RSS biometricMicrosoft admits 'Passport not secure enough'
News Passport is moving towards this goal, which is why we are adding the ability to include extra levels of authentication such as smartcards and biometric tests to the system. Microsoft has admitted its Passport platform... [06 Nov 2001]
Privacy guru leaves to focus on security
News Smith, formerly a high-profile privacy campaigner, left his post as chief technology officer at the Denver-based Privacy Foundation to become an independent consultant researching Internet security and Biometric... [01 Nov 2001]
Tech industry urged to speed-up fight against fraud
News CEO of Hypercom Georger Wallner is urging the technology industry to speed up the roll-out of biometric fingerprint technology that will dramatically upgrade protection against payment card fraud. Speaking at the Cartes... [01 Nov 2001]
US Crisis: US government tightens e-ticket rules
News Meanwhile the International Air Transport Association was calling for widespread improvements in airport security, including the deployment of sophisticated biometric devices such as iris scanners and palm-print readers. [14 Sep 2001]
Fujitsu puts finger in sensor market pie
News The sensors, made out of silicon, are to work as a biometric authentication device to secure user access and transactions from handsets. Japanese technology giant Fujitsu announced it will start selling fingerprint... [01 Aug 2001]
UK criminals face biometric tests
News Paroled prisoners are to be ID'd over the telephone as part of a new technology deal under the Home Office's programme for 'tagging' young offenders. The scheme also includes the use of technology that verifies the phone number prisoners... [16 Jul 2001]
RSA gets smart with $12m deal
News They also have an element of biometric expertise, which is an area that we will be increasingly involved with. Online authentication and encryption firm, RSA Security today announced the $12m acquisition of smartcard and... [13 Jun 2001]
Security is in the eye of the beholder
News The biometric scanner compares the real-life iris to the recorded digitised version of person's iris and this comparison provides the match rate. The study discovered that iris recognition registered a false match rate... [22 May 2001]
Mice to see you, to see you mice
News The gadget from Bogotech works by matching a person's fingerprint with a master copy that is scanned in on the machine. As far as price goes, Neil Buckle, sales director for Belgravia Biometrics, who will distribute the equipment, said:... [18 May 2001]
SIM could spell the end for smartcards
News Simon Morgan, VP of the American Biometric Company, a smartcard and biomteric reader manufacturer, said secure SIM technology is not ready yet: The mobile phone can function as a smartcard reader and the SIM, which... [24 Jan 2001]
John Lamb's Week: internet crash spawns new analysis industry
Comment In the current film version of Charlie's Angels, the girl power investigators make their way into a vault by defeating a battery of biometric security systems including retinal scanners, head measuring callipers and... [11 Dec 2000]
Biometrics: When will the industry come to its senses?
Comment Most biometric applications in use today are in the areas of law enforcement or financial services, all of which seek to prevent fraud or theft by requiring positive identification. Experts claim IT managers are confused... [30 Nov 2000]
Identity theft: security threats get personal
Comment Or maybe you are buying groceries but another person, three thousand miles away, has already used the biometric information generated by your fingerprints. Imagine trying to withdraw money from your bank account but the... [13 Nov 2000]
Woolwich wages £125m war on paper forms
News Roy Bunyan, technical director, ICL Lifestyle banking, said: "Various companies will use our Lifestyle technology and we can expect some interesting use of avatars, biometric technology and so on. High-street bank,... [22 Mar 2000]
Diebold eyes up ATM future
News But Hillock admitted biometric ID technology in ATMs is currently very expensive, making it economically unviable for most of Diebold's clients. Diebold Incorporated, a leading manufacturer of ATMs (automated teller... [08 Mar 1999]
