Airport facial recognition use expanding as trials show faster passenger processing speed U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is exploring ways to expand the use of facial recognition at airports in light of the successful trial of the technology for passenger boarding at Boston Logan International Airport, ATWOnline.com reports. CBP Deputy...full story Categories: Biometric News | Facial Recognition Share: Facebook | Twitter

Hackers can recreate your fingerprints, but can they mimic your typing? This a guest post by Csaba Krasznay, security evangelist at Balabit. As quickly as businesses are developing new defense tactics, hackers are creating new methods to infiltrate systems, including hijacking credentials that allow them to dig deeper and steal...full story Categories: Behavioral | Biometric News Share: Facebook | Twitter

Face redaction startup Suspect Technologies plans to enter facial recognition market AI computer vision startup Suspect Technologies is planning a funding round to expand from facial redaction products to facial recognition systems for law enforcement agencies to cross-reference with watch lists in real-time and post production, BostInno reports. So far...full story Categories: Biometric News | Facial Recognition | Law Enforcement Share: Facebook | Twitter

Baidu researchers compare voice cloning methods Scientists with Baidu Research’s Deep Voice project has published a new study on the relative merits of “speaker adaptation” and “speaker encoding” as voice cloning methods. “Neural Voice Cloning with a Few Samples” (PDF) suggests that the different strengths...full story Categories: Biometric News | Biometric R&D | Voice Biometrics Share: Facebook | Twitter

HYPR partners with Samsung Pass for enterprise decentralized biometric authentication HYPR Corp has formed a partnership with identity management-as-a-service application Samsung Pass to provide biometric workstation log-in capabilities to enterprise employees using Samsung mobile devices. Additionally, HYPR has secured a $1 million investment from Samsung NEXT. HYPR’s technology stores...full story Categories: Access Control | Biometric News Share: Facebook | Twitter

Daon and Digi-Sign partner to provide Hong Kong bank with FIDO mobile solution Daon and Digi-Sign have announced the successful implementation of a biometric solution based on FIDO Alliance standards to replace passwords with on-device identification for mobile banking with one of Hong Kong’s largest banks. The implementation began in December 2016,...full story Categories: Biometric News | Financial Services Share: Facebook | Twitter

Australian digital ID platform advancing to public beta Australia’s digital identification platform is moving into beta, and will soon allow individuals to create an online form of ID, ZDNet reports Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) CEO Gavin Slater has told Senate Estimates. The DTA has launched a Trusted...full story Categories: Biometric News | Government Purchasing Share: Facebook | Twitter

ID Finance adds behavioral biometrics to its AI-based fraud scoring engine Fintech firm ID Finance is incorporating behavioral biometrics into its AI-based fraud scoring engine to eliminate fraud, boost loan approvals and reduce the incidence of non-performing loans. According to the announcement, the behavioral biometrics system was developed in-house by...full story Categories: Behavioral | Biometric News | Financial Services Share: Facebook | Twitter

Jumio honored for its Netverify solution Jumio’s Netverify solution has been recognized twice this month. The ID verification solution was named the gold winner in the Best Fraud Protection category by the 2018 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards and SC Magazine also named Netverify a finalist for...full story Categories: Biometric News | Trade Notes Share: Facebook | Twitter

InCadence wins Alliant 2 Small Business contract InCadence Strategic Solutions has been awarded an Alliant 2 Small Business (A2SB) Governmentwide Acquisition Contract (GWAC). The A2SB GWAC is a multiple award, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract. The master contract’s scope includes big data, cloud computing, cybersecurity, agile...full story Categories: Biometric News | Government Purchasing Share: Facebook | Twitter

The Middle East Financial Security Exhibition and Conference 2018 The Middle East Financial Security Exhibition and Conference (MEFSEC) February 27th to March 1, 2018 Four Seasons Hotel, Abu Dhabi, UAE Dome Exhibitions has announced the launch of the First Annual Conference and Exhibition dedicated to Cyber Security in...full story Categories: Biometrics Industry Events Share: Facebook | Twitter

European Payments Forum 5th Annual European Payments Forum March 1-2, 2018 Amsterdam, The Netherlands After the great success of the September 2017 event, we will have our next annual European Payments Forum in March 2018. This time, the hosting city is going...full story Categories: Biometrics Industry Events Share: Facebook | Twitter

Forensics Europe Expo Forensics Europe Expo March 6-7, 2018 Olympia, London With an incredible speaker line up, dozens of free seminars, tonnes of innovation and an exhibition of the latest technology, Forensics Europe Expo is gearing up to be the must-attend event...full story Categories: Biometrics Industry Events Share: Facebook | Twitter

Security & Counter Terror Expo Security & Counter Terror Expo March 6 – 7, 2018 Olympia, London Security & Counter Terror Expo is the UK’s leading national security event. It is a world-class showcase of the capabilities, strategies and intelligence to keep nations, infrastructure,...full story Categories: Biometrics Industry Events Share: Facebook | Twitter

Global Iris Recognition Summit 2018 Global Iris Recognition Summit 2018 March 12 – 13 2018 Beijing, China Using biometrics for authentication and human-computer interaction has become an important market trend. Compared to the popular fingerprint recognition and face recognition, iris recognition has prominent advantage...full story Categories: Biometrics Industry Events Share: Facebook | Twitter