biometrics

Each month there seems to be more news of data breaches, both large and small. As these events continue to increase in frequency, organizations are learning that they must engage, and rapidly, ...

Behavioral biometrics bring a better user experience to authentication COVID-19 may very well redefine our work, our homes, our very lives for the foreseeable future. As we near the end of 2020, ...

When Leonardo DiCaprio played famed conman Frank Abagnale, it awakened many in the con experience. In the movie Catch Me If You Can, DiCaprio (as Abagnale) conned flight attendants (pretending to be ...

Researchers can detect deep fakes because they don’t convincingly mimic human blood circulation in the face: In particular, video of a person’s face contains subtle shifts in color that result from pulses ...

Sound waves through the body are unique enough to be a biometric: "Modeling allowed us to infer what structures or material features of the human body actually differentiated people," explains Joo Yong ...

Forward-looking organizations are turning to biometrics to prepare for a passwordless future In today’s digital world, people can accomplish anything they need to online, from banking to shopping. Yet, the popular authentication ...

In the digital era, the need for security is higher than ever before as a majority of us keep a huge portion of our lives on our mobile devices. As a result, ...

In a recent opinion, an Illinois federal judge determined that a user’s biometric privacy claims must be arbitrated according to Shutterfly’s 2015 arbitration clause, despite the fact that plaintiff never assented to ...

Why do companies still insist upon using passwords? I’d be very surprised if anyone reading this would say they love passwords. In fact, the weakest links in a cybersecurity defense are usernames ...

A few years back, authentication used to be very simple, i.e. users needed two strings (username and password). If someone knows both, then they can access the account—easy as that. This was ...