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Palm scanner IDs hospital patients
NYU Langone Medical Center is using an infrared light scanning technology to identify patients by the blood flow patterns their palms, one of 10 hospitals around the United States that have deployed
Woman foils fingerprint security to enter Japan
According to a news report from BBC News, a Chinese woman had plastic surgery to altar her fingerprints, successfully fooling immigration to enter Japan illegally. The woman, Lin Rong, had been
The pros and cons of biometric authentication
While some believe that biometric authentication can go a long way toward solving corporate security challenges, others believe it might only make things worse. On the plus side, biometrics
Why its time to dump passwords
Security vendors are pushing enterprises toward biometrics for PC and application access, saying that the insecurity inherent to passwords is too high. It seems that one in three users put their
Authentication grabs security spotlight
One of the latest security recommendations for network protection is assigning identification tags to machines to restrict unauthorized network access. But as a recent trend indicates, that's just
Where business travel tools are heading
This week's thwarted terrorist plot to blow up airliners is also highlighting the various new technologies federal agencies have put in place to detect criminal activity and potential danger at
SPOTLIGHT: Why RFID is starting to stall a bit
At one point it looked like there was no stopping radio frequency identification technology (RFID) from permeating everything from retail operations to manufacturing systems and even security
Biometrics does more than shore up access security
There have been a few recent reports about how biometrics and radio frequency technology (RFID) are being grabbed up to replace password and magnetic security card approaches. The latest
Why biometrics is making inroads
The use of biometrics in everything from computing to food shopping is inching closer to reality. With the increasing need to verify, verify and verify again so that systems and services and data
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