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Digital fingerprint to tackle dark side of the Web
News Forensic software enabling a digital fingerprint to be attached to electronic images on the Web was launched on Thursday, providing companies with a new means of cracking down on employee abuse of the Internet.
[April 20, 2001, 8:11]
Jelly babies dupe fingerprint security
News A Japanese researcher claims to have found a way to fool fingerprint scanners up to 80 percent of the time, using household materials and a little lateral thinking. With care, he says, all 11 of the current fingerprint scanning technologies he...
[May 16, 2002, 16:03]
Police to spend £40m on fingerprint biometrics
News The four-year Midas (Mobile Identification at Scene) framework contract will involve up to 10 participants and may be extended for a further two years, allowing it to end at the same time as the Ident1 contract for the national, automated...
[August 22, 2008, 11:29]
ID database will retain fingerprint images
News An IPS spokesperson said the NBIS will be "separate and distinct" from Ident1, the existing national police fingerprint database. The microchips within identity cards and passports will hold only two fingerprint templates, and a match of just one...
[May 19, 2009, 12:09]
Fingerprint reader can help navigation
News The desktop security company plans to sell the scanner, named the U-are-U Firefly, to laptop and personal digital assistant makers that want to allow users to protect their data with a fingerprint scan.
[May 6, 2003, 8:56]
Police to get mobile fingerprint scanners
News Handheld fingerprint readers will be rolled out to police across the UK from 2010 as part of the Project Midas scheme, allowing officers to perform on-the-spot ID checks without having to take suspects back to the station.
[October 23, 2008, 9:39]
ID cards face fingerprint errors, say experts
News Experts have warned that the ID-card scheme risks being derailed by mistakes in fingerprint matches. The £4.4bn National Identity Scheme's (NIS's) reliance on fingerprint and facial-recognition biometrics exposes the system to error, according to...
[June 23, 2008, 8:52]
Digital fingerprint aims to cut down piracy
News The new arrangement, expected to be announced on Tuesday, will see Universal give Audible Magic a "fingerprint," or digital identification tool, for each song it releases, before albums are shipped to retailers.
[August 12, 2003, 10:30]
Fingerprint checks to begin at UK border controls
News Fingerprint checks on foreigners at border controls will begin at the end of November, says the UK Border Agency. In addition to usual checks at UK border controls, from 30 November, 2009 overseas nationals arriving in the country will have their...
[November 30, 2009, 7:19]
Comdex '99: Get ready for the biometric mouse!
News Biometric security -- fingerprint-reading keypads, retina-scanning lasers and the like -- may finally be ready for the enterprise. Third, and possibly the most important, some biometric developers believe they have hit on a biometric platform that...
[November 15, 1999, 10:14]
Scientists pore over biometric-spoofing tests
News Researchers at Clarkson University have found that fingerprint readers can be spoofed by fingerprint images lifted with Play-Doh or gelatine or a model of a finger moulded out of dental plaster. The algorithm, created by Stephanie Schuckers...
[December 22, 2005, 11:05]
Indian temples manage crowds with biometrics
News Possibly the world's largest biometrics solution has been implemented in India's Tirumala temple group, offering high-tech security fingerprint security on a pilot scale, with plans to expand. There are 18 fingerprint scanners installed.
[December 30, 2003, 10:05]
Biometric USB drive scans fingerprints
News Memory Experts is to launch a 2GB biometric USB flash drive in the UK next month, featuring a fingerprint scanner that can be used to control both access to documents stored inside the device and to a corporate network, the company said this week.
[February 20, 2004, 15:00]
Telecoms giants team up to fight hackers
News The new Fingerprint Sharing Alliance hopes to help its members, which include BT, Cisco, EarthLink, MCI and NTT, more effectively share information on individuals responsible for launching online attacks.
[March 29, 2005, 9:10]
Biometrics plug into Windows
News AuthenTec, a maker of fingerprint-recognition sensors, announced on Monday that it had signed a deal with Microsoft to integrate software support for biometrics into the Windows operating system. Although fingerprint-recognition security packages...
[April 29, 2003, 10:55]
School to trial biometric testing
News A secondary school in Berkshire is set to trial biometric fingerprint scanning technology to keep track of pupils entering and leaving its premises and cut truancy rates. The students will have to place their thumb in a fingerprint scanner whenever...
[July 17, 2006, 17:35]
ID cards set back by equipment failure
News The failure of fingerprint and iris-recognition equipment delayed the launch of the government's biometric ID card trials by three months, Home Secretary David Blunkett has admitted to MPs. No-one at Atos Origin was available for comment and NEC...
[May 6, 2004, 12:25]
Biometric checks launched for all UK visa applicants
News All applicants for visas to enter the UK will face biometric fingerprint checks from the end of this month. The fingerprint database contains the records of more than one million previous visa applicants.
[January 15, 2008, 7:18]
Sensor-on-a-chip scans prints in an instant
News A new fingerprint scanning technology has been unveiled by Florida company AuthenTec. A matrix of sensors on the chip's surface measures and charts this distortion, and the rest of the chip recreates the fingerprint image for analysis.
[November 6, 2001, 16:11]
New iPaqs take high road, low road
News Hewlett-Packard plans on Monday to introduce two iPaqs: One the smallest, most affordable iPaq yet and the other a deluxe model with fingerprint recognition and two forms of wireless connectivity. As for the new high-end wireless iPaq, the Pocket...
[November 14, 2002, 15:58]
