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John Mello is a freelance technology and business writer who lives in Woonsocket, R.I. Fingerprints have long been the most widely used biometric identifier, but technological advancements are helping ...

The payments industry, facing the risk of increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks and various types of credit card fraud, has begun incorporating various types of biometric technology to enhance ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

As the world continues to move essential functions to digital environments, companies need trustworthy methods for verifying who is behind the screen. Multifactor authentication (MFA) has become the ...

Secure contactless transactions will be essential to keep employees and customers safe in the post-pandemic shopping and workplace era. COVID-19 has sped up much of the digital transformation already ...

Two European banks are looking to boost security by layering a pair of biometric authentication methods – facial recognition and palm recognition – atop one another. That could mean more security, or ...

Intelligence and military researchers want to merge facial recognition with other biometric methods to identify people from long distances and steep angles The intelligence community wants to put ...

Biometric authentication is often thought of as nearly impossible to steal or fake, a perfect addition to your cybersecurity arsenal. While it is tough for a threat actor to replicate a physical ...

Continuous, passive authentication: Behavioral biometrics analyze typing, swiping and other actions in real time to verify identity without disrupting users. AI-driven adaptability: Machine learning ...

It seems like almost every week we hear about a new data breach that exposes millions of consumer records. Data breaches have become a normal part of people’s digital existence. This should not be the ...

At the beginning of the year, there were reports that the Apple iPhone 13 series is likely to use the Touch ID fingerprint technology. The reports also claim that the latest flagship iPhone will use ...