John Mello is a freelance technology and business writer who lives in Woonsocket, R.I. Fingerprints have long been the most widely used biometric identifier, but technological advancements are helping ...

The concept of biometrics is not new. International super spies have been accessing top secret information with fingerprint and retina scans, voice recognition, and other biometric methods in movies ...

As the world continues to move essential functions to digital environments, companies need trustworthy methods for verifying who is behind the screen. Multifactor authentication (MFA) has become the ...

The method comprises, upon the time period associated with the first biometric parameter satisfying the time threshold, calculating, by the sever, a second biometric parameter based at least on one of ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

Biometric authentication is often thought of as nearly impossible to steal or fake, a perfect addition to your cybersecurity arsenal. While it is tough for a threat actor to replicate a physical ...

Abstract Digital or analog objects are steganographically encoded with plural bit digital data. The encoding may proceed with reference to biometric data, such as fingerprint or retinal scan data. One ...

Two European banks are looking to boost security by layering a pair of biometric authentication methods – facial recognition and palm recognition – atop one another. That could mean more security, or ...

Amazon announced on Wednesday that it is retiring its Amazon One payment system from all retailers, such as Whole Foods, after continued customer privacy concerns about the biometric technology ...

It seems like almost every week we hear about a new data breach that exposes millions of consumer records. Data breaches have become a normal part of people’s digital existence. This should not be the ...

Title METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO A SENSITIVE AREA, PARTICULARLY A TRANSPORT DEVICE, BY BIOMETRIC VERIFICATION Abstract A method for controlling access to a sensitive area, particularly a ...