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Exponential hacking of biometric authentication reveals some defenses already overwhelmed

“Motion-based is completely broken,” says Andrew Bud, founder and CEO, iProov, of biometric identity authentication where users are asked to…

 

Liberia, Nigeria test biometric election equipment ahead of full deployment

Liberia’s National Elections Commission (NEC) has begun a trial voter registration exercise to test the functionality of biometric voter registration…

 

World Bank is helping the displaced in Mozambique get IDs, birth certificates

There has been respite for thousands of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Mozambique as a civil registration and ID card…

 

Identomat passes level 2 biometric PAD compliance test from iBeta

Biometric onboarding and KYC solution provider Identomat has announced it has received confirmation of ISO/IEC 30107-03 compliance after passing a…

 

Worldcoin shares details of open-source, iris biometrics-scanning ‘Orb’

Cryptocurrency company Worldcoin has published a new blog post describing the “Orb,” the company’s iris biometric imaging device. “After three…

 

Locking incognito tabs with biometrics and pulling out a key ring to log on – new security

A couple advances in securing one’s data have been introduced, although one just does not feel like an advance. Google…

 

CardLab licenses biometric access card technology to Italian cybersecurity startup

Biometric card technologies from CardLab have been licensed by Italy-based WiBioCard to build a fully integrated card and back-end authentication…

 

Face and fingerprint biometrics for retail payments advancing by inches

Biometric technologies for retail payments made up a pair of the most-read articles of the week on Biometric Update, in…

 

No facial recognition at 2024 Olympics, French privacy watchdog tells parliament

The French parliament has been urged not to consider deploying facial recognition at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics event by…

 

Its biometric system hobbled, Florida police push for new software

Lawmakers in the U.S. state of Florida are considering upgrades to the state police’s biometric ID system. It reportedly is…

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