Effective IT security is in high demand, and a large variety of industries such as banking, government, education, health care and the military view biometrics solutions as a key part of the solution.

Although it wasn't called biometrics at the time, a rudimentary form of the technology emerged in 1901 when Scotland Yard adopted fingerprint classification to identify criminal suspects. The ...

A Hong Kong bank recently fell victim to an impersonation scam in which a bank employee was tricked into transferring $25.6 million to thieves after a video call with the bank CFO and other colleagues ...

Biometric security devices — which authenticate a person’s identity on the basis of physical characteristics, such as a fingerprint — have been available in one form or another for 30 years. But ...

Technical analysis shows Windows Hello's biometric protections vary depending on device configuration and use of Enhanced ...

Trust Stamp has announced a significant advancement in biometric security, with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granting a patent for its "Shape Overlay for Proof of Liveness" technology. This ...

Homeland security applications, especially those used in our nation’s border control, provide an ideal example of how to implement biometrics in a way that builds and maintains the public’s support ...

When Google rolled out its latest biometrics specs for Android devices, its top-level 'strong security' option allowed “a spoof and imposter acceptance rate not higher than 7%.” Most biometrics ...

When many of us think of biometrics, we think of fingerprints or facial recognition systems that analyze faces from photos or videos and match them to sets of previously acquired data. However, ...

Windows 11's latest security update expands Enhanced Sign-in Security to external fingerprint readers. Here's what it ...

While a niche application of data storage and processing technology, biometric security is becoming an increasingly relevant sector within the broader technology industry. Back in 2021, the biometric ...