2014 marks the 40 th anniversary of Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS). In forty short years, fingerprint matching has become a part of everyday life; from law enforcement agencies ...

It was late June of 2014 when businessman John Edge was invited to a screening of a short film directed by actress Lucy Liu. “Meena” is about an 8-year-old girl sold to a brothel and forced into sex ...

Biometric ID for first responders could help police and firefighters better respond to emergencies. Those authentication technologies, however, come with risks and challenges, according to a new draft ...

NXP Semiconductors announced that its SmartMX secure contactless microcontroller chip has been chosen to power the new German contactless National Identity card. The German government has selected NXP ...

What is all the fuss about post-quantum cryptography on smart cards? Well, with vastly superior computing power, quantum computers have the potential to break the current encryption algorithms used to ...

When talking about cybersecurity, identity and authentication, the conversation often turns to “killing the password,” multi-factor authentication and mobile devices. The next step up is adaptive ...

In the past three years the U.S. government has spent more than $20 million on 14 unique pilots to foster a secure, online identity ecosystem. To evaluate if taxpayers have gotten value for the ...

Password sharing is a rampant problem, according to a survey from LastPass. Some 95% of those surveyed admit to sharing six passwords with other people. Typically the sharing is with a spouse or ...

The notion of an identity ecosystem seems like a good idea. Provide a single credential that individuals can use for secure or anonymous access to Internet sites without having to remember dozens of ...

As part of the university’s Student Affairs Risk Assessment efforts, Ohio State University is using RFID technology to combat bike theft. Coined “Bug Your Bike,” the program gives students the option ...

When you’re chasing down international criminals, the last thing you need is a passport inspection slowing you down at the border. That’s the idea behind the new travel documents issued to officers of ...