Effective IT security is in high demand, and a large variety of industries such as banking, government, education, health care and the military view biometrics solutions as a key part of the solution.

NYC Health + Hospitals says attackers accessed its systems for months through a third-party vendor compromise, affecting at least 1.8 million people.

The intrusion may have originated through a breach at an unnamed third-party vendor. The NYCHH did not identify the vendor in ...

Biometric security devices — which authenticate a person’s identity on the basis of physical characteristics, such as a fingerprint — have been available in one form or another for 30 years. But ...

Although it wasn't called biometrics at the time, a rudimentary form of the technology emerged in 1901 when Scotland Yard adopted fingerprint classification to identify criminal suspects. The ...

You’re probably already using biometric technology on a regular basis, even if you aren’t aware of it. According to ExpressVPN, biometric is the use of distinct biological features, like fingerprints, ...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Ayanna Pressley recently introduced legislation that would ban government agencies from using facial recognition technology, claiming that it ...

The influx of digital identity fraud is driving the adoption of more secure identity verification methods, like the use of biometric authentication tools. These solutions are much more capable of ...

Biometric systems are increasingly being leveraged across the nation for homeland security missions and the security of U.S. citizens. With this increased implementation, the U.S. Department of ...

When many of us think of biometrics, we think of fingerprints or facial recognition systems that analyze faces from photos or videos and match them to sets of previously acquired data. However, ...

From casual selfies to group pictures, the popular “V” hand gesture could now present a security threat, as advances in AI ...

The results are in. And as it turns out, despite the naysayers, Americans are happy about the use of biometric security measures at airports. The U.S. Travel Association, in conjunction with Ipsos, ...