PayPal Wants To Integrate Password with Human Body

You would have been holding a number of online accounts for different services, but how many of you hold a different and unique password for every single account? Probably a very few of you. The majority of people have one or two passwords that are quite simple and easy to remember and comfortabl...

Android 'Trusted Voice': My Voice Is My Password

Today device unlocking has become far more secure over the years, from PIN number unlock to Pattern unlock and biometric unlocks including fingerprinting and facial recognition. But... ...What If Your Android Device Can Identify Your Voice before authenticating any access? This exactly what Googl...

Hacker Finds a Simple Way to Fool IRIS Biometric Security Systems

Biometric security systems that involve person's unique identification ID, such as Retinal, IRIS, Fingerprint or DNA, are still evolving to change our lives for the better even though the biometric scanning technology still has many concerns such as information privacy, and physical privacy. In...

Hacker Clones German Defense Minister's Fingerprint Using Just her Photos

Hackers have already bypassed Apple's fingerprint scanner using fake fingerprints, and now they have found a way to reproduce your fingerprints by using just a couple of photos of your fingers. Special Fingerprint sensors have already been used by Apple and Samsung in their smartphones for...

ZKSoftware Biometric Attendence Managnmnet Hardware[MIPS] 2 - Improper Authentication

No description provided by source. Exploit Title: ZKSoftware Biometric Attendence managnmnet HardwareMIPS Improper Authentication. Date: 20-3-2010 Author: FB1H2S Software Link: http://www.esslindia.com/install/eTimeTrack.zip Version: V2 Tested on: category: Remote Code : Advisory ZKSoftware...

Samsung Plans to add Eye Scanner to its Upcoming Smartphones

After introducing the Fingerprint scanner to its new release, Samsung next plans to add IRIS scanning technology to its future smartphones to better improve the security of smartphones and for being more innovative too. According to a report released by The Wall Street Journal, Samsung senior Vic...

Samsung Eyeing Iris Recognition for New Phones

Samsung announced this week that in order to bolster security, it plans to incorporate biometric sensors such as eye scanners into more of its products – even its low-end devices – in the near future. The move would bring an added layer of security to its devices and could wind up tying into in t...

Like Apple's TouchID, Galaxy S5 Vulnerable to Fingerprint Hack

Researchers published a video this week demonstrating how Samsung’s latest entry in the smartphone arena, the Galaxy S5, is vulnerable to a hack that involves lifting and copying fingerprints to trick the phone’s biometric sensor. Much like the Apple iPhone 5S, the smartphone, which first hit the...

Confirmed: Samsung Galaxy S5 has a Fingerprint Scanner

After the huge success of Samsung galaxy S3, Samsung Galaxy S4 and Samsung Tablets, the world’s most successful Android manufacturer is going to reveal its brand new Smartphone Samsung Galaxy S5 next week at Mobile World. Early in 2014, rumors suggested that Samsung Galaxy S5 will have Fingerprin...

Time For a Change in Security Thinking, Experts Say

WASHINGTON–Security, like a lot of other things, tends to go in phases. A new attack technique is developed, vendors respond with a new defensive technology and then attackers find a way to defeat it. It has always been that way. And right now, things seem to be in one of those periodic down cycl...

Finally, iPhone's Fingerprint Scanner 'TouchID' hacked first by German Hackers

Apple has marketed TouchID both as a convenience and as a security feature. "Your fingerprint is one of the best passwords in the world," says an Apple promotional video. A European hacker group has announced a simple, replicable method for spoofing Apple's TouchID fingerprint authentication...

Finally, iPhone's Fingerprint Scanner 'TouchID' hacked first by German Hackers

Apple has marketed TouchID both as a convenience and as a security feature. “Your fingerprint is one of the best passwords in the world,” says an Apple promotional video. A European hacker group has announced a simple, replicable method for spoofing Apple’s TouchID fingerprint authentication...

Apple Puts Fingerprint reader in iPhone

If you haven’t heard, Apple unveiled two new iterations of the iPhone at one of the Cupertino company’s typically grandiose product events yesterday. As usual, there was plenty of hype to go around, but the biggest change as far as security is concerned is the addition of a fingerprint scanner on...

Watchwatch-like Heartbeat Monitor to Replace Passwords

The heart beating in our chests contains in its right atrium a bundle of nerve cells and synapses known as the cardiac pacemaker. The cardiac pacemaker emits electrical impulses that cause the human heart to beat. These electrical impulses and the heart rhythm they produce can be measured by an...

DARPA, FIDO Alliance Join Race to Replace Passwords

Nearly everyone agrees that passwords are the bane of Internet security. For years, industry thinkers have somewhat vaguely referenced the need for Internet fingerprints capable of reliably verifing identities online. Yet here we are, it’s 2013 and passwords remain the primary means of...

Fingerprint And Proximity Access Control Bypass

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 + Device: Fingerprint & Proximity Access Control + Model: ZEM560 and others + Kernel: 2.6.24 Treckle on an MIPS + Vulnerability: Auth Bypass + Impact: By using a direct URL attackers can bypass the fingerprint & proximity security and open the door...

Slideshow: Ten Weird Biometrics In Your Future

VIEW SLIDESHOW: Weird Science: 10 Forms of Biometric Authentication In the past twenty years, we’ve gone from using amber-tinted dumb terminals connected to refrigerator-sized mainframe computers to sleek tablet computers and smart phones tucked into our pockets. Despite those changes, one...

The Genetic Log-in

DNA has been in use as a biometric identifier for some time. But as the O.J. trial proved, DNA analysis takes time, costs a lot of money and requires a lab to process – often creating the opening for challenges as to the accuracy of the test results. That’s the reason that, despite its utility, D...

Outer Ear Authentication

The insides of our ears are a mysterious place for most of us. It turns out, however, that there’s more going on in there than we expected. In a study presented at the IEEE Fourth International Conference on Biometrics in September of 2010, researchers used a shape-finding algorithm to determine ...

The Nose Knows

Researchers at Bath University have unveiled a system where noses, not fingerprints or irises, could be scanned and used for biometric authentication. Using a system called PhotoFace, first developed at the University of the West of England Bristol and Imperial College London, individuals had...