News Roundup: A Week for Behavioral Biometrics, Fingerprints & Anti-Spoofing
Last week at FindBiometrics Behavioral Biometrics Month continued as we examined the anti-malware applications of the burgeoning modality. Fingerprints and…
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Smartphone Fingerprint Sensors Are Everywhere – So What’s Next?
Fingerprint sensors are now widespread across a range of mobile devices, and the technology that was cutting-edge only a year or two ago is now considered…
Behavioral Biometrics Month: A Better RAT Trap
Rats in Your Walls RAT attacks are a high profile cyber-threat. Remote Access Trojans (RATs) are a category of malware that make good on their acronym: just…
Biometrics to Bust Runner Ringers in Beijing Half Marathon
Organizers are planning to use biometrics to weed out cheaters in an upcoming half marathon in Beijing. As The Telegraph reports, the development comes amid a…
Luxury Retirement Community Gets Bodet Biometrics
Bodet has brought its biometric workforce management platform to a luxury retirement community in London. Battersea Place is now equipped with Kelio Visio X7…
ImageWare Tech to Authenticate Employees at Alaskan Airports
ImageWare has won a contract to provide its biometric technology to five Alaskan airports, the company has announced. While such technology is increasingly…
CrucialTec Wins Transparent Fingerprint Sensor Patent
CrucialTec has won a patent for a transparent fingerprint sensor enabling in-display scanning on smartphones, reports The Investor. It isn’t yet clear exactly…
Precise Biometrics Tech Integrated into Chinese Phone via Silead Sensors
“Precise Biometrics also noted that the integration comes via Silead, a China-based IC specialist with which the company entered into a partnership about two…
FPC Sensor Featured on New Micromax Smartphone
“…in addition to the biometric authentication security offered by FPC’s fingerprint sensor, the smartphone also offers ‘encryption of phone calls, messages,…
Indian Tax Agency Says Certain Bank Accounts Must be Linked to Aadhaar
The Indian government’s tax agency has announced that individuals who opened bank accounts between July of 2014 and August of 2015 will need to link their…