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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]
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]
Digital fingerprint aims to cut down piracy
Talkback This is ridiculous. We have recorded music off the radio since I can remember so what is the difference. They should be thankful people are even interested in the music so they may go out and buy the CD.
[August 18, 2003, 11:30]
Hashing standard cracked
News An encryption standard widely used in digitally signing documents and programs has a flaw in it that could allow for the creation of forgeries, sources said on Wednesday.In a three-page research note seen by ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com...
[February 17, 2005, 8:40]
Give public biometrics the finger
Talkback The digital data created by the fingerprint scanner is still going to have to be validated 'down the wires' and that is what takes the time not the 2 seconds it takes to stick a credit card in a reader and enter your PIN (assuming you can remember...
[October 27, 2005, 9:24]
IBM adds 'trusted' chip to PCs
News Companies throughout the IT world have been working on a variety of methods to improve the reliability of authentication, including biometric approaches such as fingerprint readers and iris scanners. Microsoft, for example, last week introduced a...
[September 16, 2004, 10:00]
Home Office shrugs off ID card hack demo
News Four of the fields important to the breach are Data Group 1 (DG1), which contains information in the machine readable zone (MRZ) on a passport; DG2, which contains the facial image; DG3, which contains the fingerprint image; and DG14, which...
[August 7, 2009, 17:33]
Napster founder unveils new P2P venture
News Labels then provide Snocap with a set of rules to be associated with each fingerprint -- for example, a song might only be allowed to be traded if it is wrapped in Windows Media digital rights management, which can be unlocked with a 99-cent payment.
[December 3, 2004, 8:25]
Microsoft releases new handheld OS
News The h5000 line gains two new models; the $649 h5550 has 128MB of memory, a fingerprint reader, and built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. The h5150, which lacks the fingerprint reader or built-in Wi-Fi, will sell for $549, HP said.
[June 23, 2003, 8:03]
Hit list dwindles in new Napster software
News At least at this stage, this is a laborious process, in some cases even involving people hand-checking a song against its audio fingerprint to make sure the file should be allowed into the system. People name songs many different ways, and...
[June 28, 2001, 14:26]
Digital signatures 'could be forged'
News They take all kinds of input, from an email message to an operating-system kernel, and generate what's supposed to be a unique fingerprint. Changing even one letter in the input file results in a completely different fingerprint.
[August 18, 2004, 8:35]
Police to trial integrated authentication
News Fingerprint biometrics on keyboards and a biometric fingerprint reader on the West Midlands Police computer room will be implemented. West Midlands Police is to trial an identity authentication system that will allow both physical and digital...
[September 25, 2006, 9:35]
Enabling High Speed Data Communications Over TETRA
White Papers In addition to transactional data solutions for public safety, it also supports wireless browsing, e-mail, automatic vehicle location and fingerprint resolution. Visual information such as maps, digital pictures and slow motion video can be...
[August 2, 2005, 6:00]
Full biometric ID scheme to reach the UK 'by 2009'
Talkback The article seems to imply that the US requirements are a justification for fingerprint and Iris scan data to be taken and held on government databases - in fact the US requirement is simply for machine readable passports with digital photo data...
[October 25, 2005, 16:39]
SHA-1: Your questions answered
News It's used to reduce long documents to a smaller unique digital fingerprint, or hash, which is then signed using public-key encryption. A collision is when two different files result in the same fingerprint, or hash, and is considered a failure in...
[March 3, 2005, 8:50]
Biometric passports win EU approval
News The facial and fingerprint data will be stored on an embedded chip, along with a digital copy of the bearer's photo. In three years, European travellers will also have to provide a fingerprint for the passport.
[October 28, 2004, 9:34]
Google dismisses Viacom copyright claims
News We already have in place a digital hash blocking system" that identifies the digital "fingerprint" of content that has been removed for copyright reasons, he said. YouTube, which Google acquired last year for $1.65bn in stock, is protected from...
[May 1, 2007, 9:51]
Platform-hopping virus poses new threat
News Many antivirus programs detect viruses based on a "digital fingerprint" of the code. For example, the latest variant of the Klez worm, Klez.h, can be easily detected by current antivirus software based on its digital fingerprints.
[June 5, 2002, 14:39]
MIT looks into the technology crystal ball Pt II
News Likewise, biometrics is moving from fingerprint recognition to more advanced facial recognition and other unique traits that could provide security in the digital world. In the IT realm, the magazine focuses on the growing significance of digital...
[December 29, 2000, 9:26]
Intel adds security to second-generation VPro
News First, it stores the digital fingerprints of software in a protected region called the trusted platform module; every time the software is run, it checks to make sure the software still matches that fingerprint to see that it hasn't been compromised.
[March 19, 2007, 12:05]
