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RSS fingerprintThe Bloor Perspective: Biometric choices, 3G+WLAN and EMC buying VMWare
Comment Biometrics have been used for many years for a variety of applications across a range of industries, including the use of fingerprint or iris scans for personal verification in the financial services industry, such as for withdrawals at ATMs. [22 Dec 2003]
Will ID cards contain DNA sample?
News The government's proposed biometric ID card and the national DNA database could eventually be combined to produce a genetic 'fingerprint' for every UK citizen, according to industry experts. The current proposal contains plans for a central... [27 Nov 2003]
Japanese man fools biometric sensor with fake finger
News A Japanese researcher has duped 11 supposedly secure biometric fingerprint sensors with homemade gelatine fingers. Tsutomu Matsumoto, a graduate student at Yokohama University, claimed that fingerprint detectors could be fooled up to 80 per cent of... [17 May 2002]
The A to Z of biometrics
News As this type of laptop becomes more common it's likely that access to corporate networks will increasingly be through fingerprint verification. Hand geometry is not thought to be unique in the same way as other biometrics such as iris or... [20 Jul 2006]
Police crackdown to see drivers fingerprinted
News Police forces are using handheld computers to run roadside fingerprint tests to crack down on rogue motorists who provide fake identities. Bedfordshire Police is the first of 10 forces to start fingerprint identity checks at the roadside as part of... [22 Nov 2006]
Irish school scans fingers to beat truancy
News A school in Ireland is testing biometric fingerprint readers in a bid to stamp out truancy. Adrenalin, the company behind the software, claims it protects children's identities by only recording certain "interesting" parts of the fingerprint and... [01 Jun 2005]
Defeating TCP/IP Stack Fingerprinting
White Paper This paper describes the design and implementation of a TCP/IP stack fingerprint scrubber. The fingerprint scrubber is a new tool to restrict a remote user's ability to determine the operating system of another host on the network. [24 Feb 2004]
Comms giants team up to fight hackers
News The new Fingerprint Sharing Alliance hopes to help its members, which include British Telecommunications, Cisco Systems, EarthLink, MCI and NTT Communications, more effectively share information on individuals responsible for launching online... [29 Mar 2005]
CIO Jury: Will biometrics replace passwords and PINs?
News Iris and fingerprint-scanning technology will replace passwords and PIN numbers as the long-term answer to identity management problems, according to UK IT chiefs. Biometrics will replace passwords in many institutions in the next 18 months via... [16 Feb 2006]
Fujitsu puts finger in sensor market pie
News Japanese technology giant Fujitsu announced it will start selling fingerprint readers for mobile handsets. Fujitsu said it aims to take-over 40 per cent of the global fingerprint sensor market, currently at $16m but said to grow to $800m by 2004. [01 Aug 2001]
Photos: Biometric security comes to Heathrow
Photo The miSense trial at London's Heathrow Airport will use biometric fingerprint and iris scans to screen air passengers on selected Emirates and Cathay Pacific flights to and from Dubai and Hong Kong. The fingerprint scanner (pictured) records prints... [06 Dec 2006]
Biometrics cut pub brawls by a quarter
News But despite rumours the technology is to be introduced in other UK cities, Coventry, Leeds and Sheffield city councils have all told silicon.com that fingerprint scanning is not a technology under consideration. [24 Oct 2006]
Biometrics ready for next generation
News Biometrics has traditionally focussed on identifying individuals through iris or fingerprint identification, but this technique could be fundamentally flawed. Martin Hewgill, fraud and risk specialist at card payment technology company ACI, said... [24 Oct 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 show in Paris, Wallner said... [01 Nov 2001]
Biometrics: Your questions answered
Comment Nicola King, senior consultant, government services division, PA Consulting answers: "Matsumoto is one of a range of researchers who have developed methods that have been proven to fool a range of biometric readers for each of the main biometric... [20 Aug 2004]
