Tag: biometrics

Movies and television shows are full of scenes where individuals are recognized in huge crowds using facial recognition software. Until recently, some of those seemed far-fetched or maybe prohibitively expensive. That is no longer the case. Sahil Chinoy described a facial recognition demonstration in The New York Times. He and his team built a sub-100 […]

I’ve written before on biometrics. If you’ve read those posts, you’ll know that I like biometrics in general. But earlier this year, a new wrinkle popped up in the field: people are accusing Facebook of capturing biometric information without users’ consent. According to the lawsuit, the plaintiffs say that Facebook is capturing “faceprints.” I don’t […]

A device like a FitBit may soon greatly improve user authentication. The key to this will be ephemeral biometrics. We talk about biometric authentication in some of Learning Tree’s cyber security courses, including the System and Network Security Introduction course and the CompTIA Security+ test-prep course. But how are ephemeral biometrics different? Biometrics Today Biometric authentication […]

Biometric authentication has been attracting a lot of attention recently. Every day you see people deftly swiping their thumbs over their phones to unlock them using fingerprint recognition. Iris scanning technology is being introduced to India’s national biometric ID system. It’s the largest such system in the world—with over a billion users—and is used to […]

Some years ago the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) posted a video (actually two: one in English and one in German) showing how to capture fingerprints from objects and use the copies to spoof a fingerprint scanner. The method of capturing the prints was one often seen in TV crime dramas: use Cyanoacrylate glue to make […]