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Dear readers,
The Biometrics Info provides you with the latest news on biometrics, smartcards and network security. We provide you with this free service 2 or 3 times a week depending on the news available.
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Reinier M. van der Drift
BioXS
English
Clarkson University Engineer Outwits High-Tech Fingerprint Fraud
Eyeballs, a severed hand, or fingers carried in ziplock bags. Back alley eye replacement surgery. These are scenarios used in recent blockbuster movies like Steven Spielberg's "Minority Report" and "Tomorrow Never Dies" to illustrate how unsavory characters in high-tech worlds beat sophisticated security and identification systems.
Sound fantastic? Maybe not. Biometrics is the science of using biological properties, such as fingerprints, an iris scan, or voice recognition, to identify individuals. And in a world of growing terrorism concerns and increasing security measures, the field of biometrics is rapidly expanding.
Clarkson University
Date: 2005-12-10 |
Digital Dan's 2005 Gift Guide
Fingergear’s Computer On A Stick
By now, I've gotten used to seeing people (including myself) carrying around small USB Flash drives on which they've stored documents, pictures... whatever they want to hold near and dear to them, without having to lug around a laptop or a hard drive.
Now, thanks to the folks at Fingergear, I can carry a mini comptuer with me. The aptly named “Computer on a Stick,” is a small lighter-sized USB drive that carries its own operating system (Linux), a complete Microsoft Office-compatible suite of office software, a web browser, calculator, AOL-compatible chat program, email program... basically, everything in your current computer, only a lot smaller.
Pay By Touch acquires 7th Street Software and Convena
Pay By Touch, the global leader of biometric authentication, loyalty, membership, and payment solutions, today announced it has acquired the assets and intellectual property of 7th Street Software, Inc. and Convena, LLC, two loyalty technology providers that will significantly bolster Pay By Touch's loyalty offerings.
7th Street Software, Inc. is the developer of LoyaltySuite, a sophisticated, patent-pending technology that helps retailers automatically give shoppers relevant, personalized offers on the products they purchase most. The Convena, LLC assets will add another layer to Pay By Touch's loyalty offerings.
Mobile Devices Users Need Stronger Security
The rapid growth of mobile device users is creating a need for stronger encryption and dynamic network security infrastructure capable of handling different types of devices and usage scenarios.
These were the themes of a panel discussion entitled "End-to-End Security For Mobile Data Systems" held Wednesday at Interop-New York. Industry experts discussed trends in mobile security and the technologies that are most effective at locking down corporate data on enterprise handhelds.
Security PipeLine
Date: 2005-12-14 |
Child protection system makes debut
Logan Elrod might have been a little young to appreciate the kind of history he was making Tuesday morning as he sat in front of equipment set up in the fourth floor meeting room of the historic Butler County Courthouse.
He had the honor of being the first child to be voluntarily enrolled in a child protection system making its Kansas debut in Butler County.
The Children's Identification and Location Database (CHILD) Project was officially launched in this county and state during a news conference held in the meeting room.
It was also demonstrated to Butler County commissioners, at whose morning business meeting the announcement was being made.
Equipment used in the CHILD project will identify and locate missing children and adults through the use of iris recognition biometric technology.
Eldorado Times
Date: 2005-12-15 |
Hollywood bets on biometric DRM + P2P
Exclusive Some of you may recall the quixotic crusade of inventor Gary Brant, who we interviewed last year. Gary proposed integrating biometric DRM into a portable MP3 player, and was unabashed when several hundred Register readers wrote in to say what a bad idea it was. Not one reader, in fact, endorsed the idea.
But Brant's determination may yet win him a place in the mainstream family living room. His latest product is a set top box, that uses broadband and P2P technology to create a 'secure' network. Secured, as you might guess, by biometric DRM.
The Register
Date: 2005-12-06 |
VeriTouch Spins Off MuViBOXX!®, Introduces First Legal P2P Media Center
VeriTouch Ltd., a world leader in providing biometric hardware devices, algorithms and encryption technologies, today announced the spin-off of MuViBOXX!, a new entertainment company that will introduce the world's first legal P2P (Peer-to-Peer) file-sharing network in a consumer set-top TV box.
MuViBOXX! will feature VeriTouch's patent-pending biometric DRM (Digital Rights Management), and allow consumers to download movie and music content from its proprietary global file-sharing network via broadband connection to the Internet. MuViBOXX! is currently in discussions with major record labels and movie studios to secure high-quality content for its new network.
Veritouch
Date: 2005-12-02 |
Lenovo Points a Finger to Sale of One Million Biometric PCs
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. --(Business Wire)-- Dec. 13, 2005 -- Lenovo, provider of the industry's most secure PCs (1), will sell its 1,000,000th ThinkPad notebook with an integrated fingerprint reader next month, making it the largest provider of biometric-enabled PCs in the world.
"Security is critical to our customers, and they rely on Lenovo to deliver innovative, cutting-edge PC solutions," said Peter Hortensius, senior vice president, Notebook Business Unit, Lenovo."It's very unusual to find a new feature that makes your PC more secure while making it much easier to use. The Thinkpad fingerprint reader is popular because it is one of those rare exceptions.
NCR To Offer Retail Biometric System Globally
Finger scan-based biometric services, now in service by NCR and its Pay By Touch partner in some grocery stores in the Midwest, will be offered globally, according to an announcement from the two firms Friday.
The services use Pay By Touch's authentication and payment service and NCR's biometric point of sale (POS) solutions to enable shoppers to pay for services and retail goods with a simple finger scan.
The partnership also calls for self-service kiosk solutions to be established. "The kiosks increase convenience for shoppers to enroll, activate, and maintain their Pay By Touch electronic wallets," the firms' announcement stated. "Pay By Touch will offer kiosks to its customers under a reseller agreement with NCR. The kiosks are currently being installed by a top-ten U.S. supermarket chain."
Informationweek
Date: 2005-12-12 |
Viisage preps for shareholder vote with another acquisition
Viisage isn't even waiting for the check to officially arrive tomorrow — it's putting nearly $100 million in new money to work right now.
The fast growing identity-technology company from Billerica has acquired another company, this time buying an Alabama company producing automated driver's license testing machines. In addition to streamlining testing procedures, the test consoles contain several identity safeguards including fingerprint recognition and the ability to maintain photographic records of license applicants.
Eagle Tribune Online
Date: 2005-12-12 |
Brainwave the ultimate security key
Some companies are already offering iris recognition systems that many countries want to put into biometric passports.
But Ottawa-based Carleton University researcher Julie Thorpe wants to take the idea further. She says it is possible to do away with key cards, numbers and a litany of other security tools that allow people to retrieve bank money, access computer data or enter restricted buildings.
"A user would simply think their password," said Ms Thorpe, who hopes to develop the first biometric security device to read your mind to authenticate users.
Her idea, yet to be proven viable for commercial use, assumes that brainwave signals, like fingerprints, vary between people, even when they think alike.
News.com.au
Date: 2005-12-13 |
Secure ID in concert with RFID, combining technologies to revolutionize transport
A panel of ID industry experts provided predictions for 2006. One of these glimpses into the future will appear here each day during December.
By Gordon Hannah, Managing Director, Public Sector Security and Identity Management Group, BearingPoint
Secure personal identification combined with the tracking capabilities of RFID will soon transform secure shipping and cargo transport. Through the use of secure and speedy authentication, organizations can add extra layers of security that add end-user authentication to RFID-enabled asset tracking implementations.
SecureID News
Date: 2005-12-14 |
FBiDrive --- Secure Protection For Your Data
YOUR FINGERPRINT IS THE KEY!!
Are you carrying sensitive data on storage cards?
Do you need the ability to encrypt the files and directories that you are carrying?
How about the ability to protect those files with YOUR fingerprint? Cool idea huh?
That’s right, your fingerprint is the key to protection of those
"for your eyes only" files that you carry around with you and the -459 software is the FBIDrive vault door.
The FBIDrive (Fingerprint Biometric Identity Drive) is a very portable secured data storage device that houses a built-in finger print sensor and comes in 128M, 256M, 512M, 1G, 2G capacities. The removable disk connects to any USB port on compatible (Windows 2000, Windows XP) Windows computers. You only get access when you swipe your finger and it gets recognized. As soon as it is unlocked, you have access to the FBiDrive storage as well as the features of the -459 software.
Mobility Today
Date: 2005-12-13 |
Biometrics is here to stay
A panel of ID industry experts provided predictions for 2006. One of these glimpses into the future will appear here each day during December.
By Catherine J. Tilton, Vice President, Standards & Emerging Technology, Daon
Is it, could it be, the year for biometrics? That has been the hope for many years now, but instead of the "hockey stick" growth that has been hoped for, I believe 2006 will be another year of slow but steady growth.
In addition to the rate of growth, the question of relative growth between the commercial and public sectors is another topic of debate. Prior to 9/11, the analysts predicted that commercial use of biometrics would soon outstrip that in the public sector.
SecureID News
Date: 2005-12-12 |
Francais
La législation américaine exige que les passeports délivrés à partir du 26 octobre 2005 contiennent des données biométriques sécurisées
Initialement promis par les autorités françaises pour le 26 octobre 2005, le passeport biométrique a pris du retard, et avec lui les voyages des Français vers les Etats-Unis. La législation américaine exige en effet que les passeports délivrés à partir du 26 octobre 2005 contiennent des données biométriques sécurisées. Faute de quoi, des visas sont nécessaires pour les ressortissants français en voyage ou en simple transit aux Etats-Unis.
Du coup, l'ambassade est submergée en cette période de fêtes. Une porte-parole a souligné que les services des visas avaient reçu 2.531 demandes entre le 1er et le 12 décembre, contre 1.323 à la même période de l'an dernier.
Libération
Date: 2005-12-15 |
Nederlands
Gezichtsherkenning tegen winkeldieven in Amsterdam
Den Haag, 13.51 uur - Het Platform Criminaliteitsbeheersing Amsterdam-Amstelland (PCA) mag van het Amsterdamse college van B&W een proef uitvoeren met gezichtsherkenning in een winkel. Tijdens de proef zal in één winkel een camerasysteem alle bezoekers filmen en vergelijken met twee gegevensbestanden: één van de winkeliers voor het handhaven van winkelverboden en één van de politie met gegevens over veelplegers van winkelcriminaliteit.
Automatiseringsgids
Date: 2005-12-15 |
Vingerafdrukherkenning eenvoudig te foppen
Den Haag, 9.46 uur - Beveiligingsystemen op basis van herkenning van vingerafdrukken zijn gemakkelijk voor de gek te houden, zo blijkt uit onderzoek dat is uitgevoerd in opdracht van het Amerikaanse ministerie van Defensie en het Department of Homeland Security. Met een vingerafdruk in boetseerklei is 90 procent van de systemen te misleiden. Een groot aantal Amerikaanse universiteiten werkte samen aan het project 'ITR: Biometrics: Performance, Security and Societal Impact'.
Automatiseringsgids
Date: 2005-12-14 |
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