US states deepen mobile ID rollouts as focus shifts to verification and privacy
Mobile driver’s licenses are increasingly moving from pilot projects to identity infrastructure in the United States, as states expand digital…
Articles By Anthony Kimery
Anthony Kimery is the former Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of Homeland Security Today. He managed the magazine, daily online news operations and wrote the award-winning "Kimery Report," which covered a broad spectrum of HS-related issues, from public health preparedness to intelligence collection. He has 30-plus years of broad institutional knowledge and expertise in homeland/national security matters and issues as an editor, analyst, and consultant. He also serves as Advisory Board Member of Mississippi College’s Center for Counterterrorism Studies.
ICE expands field biometric identification with $25M iris recognition contract
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has issued a sole source award to Bi2 Technologies for iris biometric recognition technology…
US defense bill sustains military biometric identification infrastructure
Two modest biometric funding lines in the House version of the Fiscal Year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) point…
Nevada facial recognition project draws scrutiny over privacy, police oversight
The Sparks, Nevada Police Department is moving forward with a federal grant-funded facial recognition project officials say will help investigators…
FBI warning on Kali365 phishing kit exposes limits of weaker authentication
A new Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warning about a phishing-as-a-service kit targeting Microsoft 365 accounts is underscoring why major…
IRS proposal could turn taxpayer facial verification into long-term fraud database
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is considering a proposal that would authorize ID.me to retain taxpayers’ biometric data for years,…
Texas AG opens investigation into Meta glasses over privacy, biometric concerns
Texas Attorney General (AG) Ken Paxton announced Wednesday that he has opened an investigation into Meta’s AI-enabled smart glasses, escalating…
GitHub leak exposed CISA, DHS GovCloud keys, internal credentials
A public GitHub repository tied to a contractor for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) exposed credentials for highly…
Social engineering attacks are rising as employee data becomes easier to exploit
A new enterprise cybersecurity survey from Optery argues that targeted social engineering has become a high-pressure, multi-channel threat for large…
US demand for biometric access complicates EU visa waiver talks
European Union (EU) officials are negotiating a new border security framework with the United States that could give American authorities…
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