Security News

Similarities in partial fingerprints may trick biometric security systems (Help Net Security)
2017-04-11 19:45

No two people are believed to have identical fingerprints, but researchers at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering and Michigan State University College of Engineering have found...

Lip movement: Authentication through biometrics you can change (Help Net Security)
2017-03-16 17:00

Choosing a unique, complex and long enough password that will still be easy to remember is a big challenge for most users, and most of them would happily opt for biometric authentication in a...

Global biometrics market revenue to reach $15.1 billion by 2025 (Help Net Security)
2017-02-07 12:30

The biometrics market has reached a tipping point. Driven largely by the confluence of organizations’ desires to better authenticate or identify users and users’ distaste for knowledge-based...

Heartbeat as Biometric Password (Schneier on Security)
2017-01-19 12:22

There's research in using a heartbeat as a biometric password. No details in the article. My guess is that there isn't nearly enough entropy in the reproducible biometric, but I might be...