The researchers have developed a new approach to making biometric presentation attack detection (PAD) resistant to demographic bias.

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 ...

Apple has released a beta update to its Declared Age Range API, which it has pitched as an alternative to biometric age check methods.

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 ...

The payments industry, facing the risk of increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks and various types of credit card fraud, has begun incorporating various types of biometric technology to enhance ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A healthy inventory of biometric smart locks — with or without physical keys — can improve security for customers looking for the convenience of a fingerprint sensor.

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 ...

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 ...

For technology leaders responsible for identity, risk and trust, understanding the types of attacks biometric systems face (and how to defend against them) is imperative.