On May 24, 1844, the message, “What hath God wrought!” was sent by telegraph from Baltimore, Maryland, to our nation’s Capitol in Washington, DC. A new era in long-distance communications had begun.

It’s not your great-grandfather’s biometric anymore as a new patent promises to deliver a fingerprint sensor in keyboard keys. The fingerprint has received another vote of confidence from another ...

Fingerprint biometric scanning is so 20th century. Anyone can recreate a unique fingerprint with a high definition photograph. Even facial recognition software can be compromised with a high quality ...

Steve has more than 30 years of journalism and publishing experience, most of the last 20 of which were spent covering technology. He has covered networking and telecommunications in corporate ...

Steve Schipull admits to being at least a little skeptical when he first saw the biometric password product that would eventually become part of his firm's employee authentication arsenal. "It was ...

The US Department of Defense (DOD) is slowly adopting a biometrics-based system as a possible replacement for its classic card-based access and authentication solution. Last week, a second DOD ...

Biometrics, the use of information technology to verify the identity of a person using human body traits, such as fingerprints, voice, face, and eyes, is still in its nascent stages, but it is ...

People use laptops and smartphones to save and organize their entire life – protected only by a password or a PIN. However, these are often not secure, because users do not choose or store them well.