Biometric ATM and credit cards could appear sooner than you might think. The Monetary Association of Singapore has been working with financial institutions for months now to enhance the security of ATM cards to reduce the risks of magnetic strips currently on credit cards. By installing smart chips in every card, Ms. Ellen Lee of Parliament thinks that requiring...

We would like to think that biometric technology is constantly progressing, but in some ways we would be wrong. Scientists and government officials have gotten lazy, in part because we think that we already have widespread solutions. Government officials have implemented large scale biometric solutions to authenticate identity, enhance national security, and...

Announced today, January 30, 2012, the Los Angeles Airport has placed orders for ImageWare Biometric equipment. A leader in multimodal biometric security solutions, this company has provided Biometric software for thousands of major companies and organizations. Representative Jim Miller, ImageWare CEO and Chairman states: ”ImageWare is proud to play a role in...

Every time inmates in HMP Isis in London move from one area of the prison to another, they have to provide a thumb print, which keeps everything in line. But this doesn’t always work the way it’s supposed to. If just one thumb print fails, the whole system can fall apart. So there is absolutely no room for error, especially with some more dangerous than...

Ever worry that your password is too generic or you don’t know how to remember a password based on all of the requirements many companies are putting in place to try to protect you? Obviously, even if a site requires for example a password that has both letters and numbers, a lot of people might use Password123, which is extremely predictable at best. While not...