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Mastercard to Introduce Biometric Credit Cards
MasterCard have revealed a new credit card with an inbuilt biometric fingerprint reader as an additional security means to tackle credit card fraud. The technology works similar to that used on Smartphones where to issue payment, you must have your finger over the sensor to read your print and confirm payment.…
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Samsung Galaxy S8 Facial Recognition Security Reportedly Bypassed with Photo
Samsung has freshly launched their flagship Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus smartphones on Wednesday, touting new security features including a facial recognition and iris scanning system that unlocks the phone instead of the usual fingerprint and keypad code unlocking methods. These biometric systems are becoming more popular and are being…
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Mionix Naos QG Biometric Gaming Mouse Review
Introduction Mionix are masters when it comes to creating gaming peripherals, having made many of the best mice, keyboards, and headsets on the market today, while maintaining a pretty competitive price point. They’ve already proven a popular choice with the eSports scene, and their latest mouse, the Naos QG is…
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Apple Touch ID Can Be Hacked Using Play-Doh
A Chinese startup has exposed a dangerous flaw in Apple’s Touch ID biometric security verification system: it can be hacked using children’s modelling material Play-Doh. Jason Chaikin, President of mobile security firm Vkansee, demonstrated that Play-Doh can take a mould of a fingerprint which can then be used to unlock…
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Dissolvable Electronics Designed to Monitor Health
It’s almost commonplace in science fiction for characters’ bodies to be filled with tiny computers for any number of purposes. While we may not have body-dwelling nanomachines yet, researchers have developed tiny electronic sensing devices that can be placed inside the brain which are capable of dissolving harmlessly once their…
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Android Devices Found Storing User Fingerprints as Image Files
Researchers from FireEye have discovered a method of stealing fingerprints from at least two Android devices. The team found that the Samsung Galaxy S5 and the HTC One Max stores fingerprint data, used to unlock the devices, as image files (dbgraw.bmp) within an open “world readable” folder on the phones.…
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PayPal Wants You to Eat Your Passwords
PayPal wants its users to abandon their lame passwords and start eating them instead. During a presentation called Kill All Passwords, PayPal’s Global Head of Developer Advocacy Jonathan LeBlanc said that the payment company wants user-generated security to become obsolete, replaced by biologically-integrated alternatives. PayPal even considers biometric security –…
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New Windows 10 Sign-In System Will Include Face, Iris, and Fingerprint Scans
Microsoft has unveiled its new sign-in system for Windows 10, called Microsoft Hello, on its Windows Blog. http://youtu.be/1AsoSnOmhvU Hello allows users to sign-in with a traditional password or PIN, but also by face, fingerprint, and retina scan. While Hello will use existing fingerprint scanners, the face and retina recognition system…
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FIDO, the Google-Backed Password Killer
Back in October, Google revealed a new USB key log-in system. The key, carrying a data fingerprint specific to the user, only replaced the standard authentication code, as part of Google’s two-step authentication, but it marks a significant step towards eschewing the typical username/password secure log-in. On Tuesday, Google released…
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