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RSS fingerprintSony 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 Micro Vault USM-F thumb drive... [03 Sep 2007]
Improved Fingerprint Matching by Distortion Removal
White Paper Fingerprint recognition is a well-researched problem, and there are several highly accurate systems commercially available. However, this biometric technology still suffers from problems with the handling of bad quality prints. [31 Aug 2007]
ID cards: The bidding war begins
News Suppliers will be required to "design, build, deploy and service" the projects - which will include an overhaul of the Immigration and Asylum Fingerprint System - as well as offer business process and IT outsourcing. [09 Aug 2007]
Electronic Signatures & FDA: Electronic Signatures and FDA's 21 CFR Part 11
White Paper Biometric signatures, is not only similar to a handwritten signature but is also less intrusive than most other biometric authentication techniques, such as retinal eye scan, or fingerprint. The biometrics of a handwritten signature is based not... [02 Aug 2007]
Biometric Template Selection and Update: A Case Study in Fingerprints
White Paper This paper proposes two methods to perform automatic template selection where the goal is to select prototype fingerprint templates for a finger from a given set of fingerprint impressions. A biometric authentication system operates by acquiring... [27 Jul 2007]
Schools get lessons on biometric tech
News Biometric tech can take the form of fingerprint, retina, iris pattern, voice and even face shape recognition. Fingerprint recognition is already used in a number of schools for a range of uses such as cashless catering where meals are paid for in... [25 Jul 2007]
Gov trumpets ePassports successes
News Seven out of 10 of these matches were due to fingerprint data previously collected in the UK from individuals who had attempted to claim asylum before, according to the government. Speaking at a Westminster eForum, Stephen Harrison, director of... [13 Jul 2007]
Fingerprint Authentication - The Time Has Finally Arrived
White Paper It has been more than 15 years since the introduction of commercial fingerprint authentication systems. Yet they are just now gaining broad acceptance. We should not be surprised. Many technologies required several years before the right... [10 Jul 2007]
Biometric Sensor Interoperability: A Case Study in Fingerprints
White Paper In the Fingerprint Verification Competition (FVC 2002), for example, the evaluation protocol only matched images originating from the same sensor although fingerprint data from 3 different commercial sensors was available. [06 Jul 2007]
Hiding Fingerprint Minutiae in Images
White Paper The fingerprint minutiae data had to be hidden in a host image, which can be a synthetic fingerprint image, a face image or an arbitrary image. This paper introduces an application of steganography and watermarking to enable secure biometric data... [06 Jul 2007]
Ajax Fingerprinting for Web 2.0 Applications
White Paper With this evolution of Web 2.0 applications that use Ajax extensively, it is important to fingerprint Ajax tools, framework or library used by a particular web site or a page. Fingerprinting is an age old concept and one that adds great value to... [03 Jul 2007]
Add Fingerprint Scan-Based Security to Your .NET Applications Today
White Paper This paper shows how a person can use the GrFinger SDK to integrate the Microsoft Fingerprint Reader into the .NET applications. Once a user is registered, the next time he visits the office he can simply scan his fingerprint and the system will... [02 Jul 2007]
Studies of One-to-One Fingerprint Matching With Vendor SDK Matchers
White Paper NIST has conducted testing of one-to-one SDK (Software Development Kit) based COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf) fingerprint matching systems to evaluate the accuracy of one-to-one matching used in the US-VISIT program. [23 Jun 2007]
FAST SDK - Fast Autocapture of Slaps and Thumbs
White Paper In the federal government's Challenge to Industry issued in September 2005, agencies expressed their urgent need for faster, smaller and more mobile ten-fingerprint capture devices. Cross Match designed the FAST SDK software to meet the stringent... [23 Jun 2007]
US Homeland Security CIO blamed for security "incidents"
News The Government Accountability Office is preparing to release a report based on a yearlong investigation that it says documents "pervasive" security flaws in Homeland Security's US-VISIT program, which is designed to verify the identity of... [21 Jun 2007]
