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What do the Cold Boot Crypto Attack, DVD Players, and MiFare tell us about the Future of Biometrics?

2008-03-26 00:16:43 by Erik T. Heidt in Art of Information Security
 
...biometrics In fact, I found the article to be rather upsetting. Not because of the articles thesis that strong authentication through a national ID program would not necessarily pose a threat to privacy; but rather, because of their naive (and irresponsible) handling of the realities of the biometric authentication challenge. They gloss over...
 
Tags: biometric authentication, biometric authentication infrastructure, biometric authentication challenge, tamper-proof biometric authentication, authentication, authentication device, mifare, tamper, biometrics
 
 
 
 
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FBI Building Biometrics Database

2007-12-28 13:31:22 by Editor in Schneier on Security
 
The FBI is building a vast biometrics database. Given its track record, does anyone believe for a minute that his or her biometrics information will be secure in this database
 
Tags: database, vast biometrics database, fbi, biometrics information, track record, minute, secure
 
 
 
 
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Biometrics would not have prevented SocGen incident

2008-03-07 19:25:37 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
...biometrics would have mitigated any of the risk. Am I missing something? For example, page 8 of the report (and here I will admit that I haven't read it all, just the bits I can pick out in five quick minutes) lists a number of controls that were bypassed in order to "hide the fictitious nature" of the trading. Given that the purpose of...
 
Tags: controls, procedural controls, report, report identifies, audit controls, biometrics, security tosh, strong identification solutions, computer weekly think-tank
 
 
 
 
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Marines Land in Afghanistan -- with Biometrics

2008-05-22 22:30:00 by David Axe in Wired Security
 
...biometrics while hunting for known Al Qaeda operatives in Afghanistan in 2001, and since then, the military has gathered data on almost every Afghan it comes in regular contact with There's one more problem. Not all the military databases can talk to one another. We haven't standardized, said Larry Schneider, a Northrop Grumman VP who last...
 
Tags: afghan, afghan government, seditious afghan cops, afghanistan, cops, afghan loyalties, nato commanders, nato, warlords
 
 
 
 
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"Prosthetic Biometrics": Microchips Under Your Skin

2007-02-09 00:00:00 by Ari Juels in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...biometrics." Gently, I hope. Today a company called VeriChip conducted an initial public offering. VeriChip sells small, encapsulated microchips (RFID tags) that transmit unique serial numbers over short distances via radioâsurgically implantable authentication devices, in fact. Dogs and cats have been regularly implanted with RFID tags for...
 
Tags: devices, implantable authentication devices, rfid tags, scan rfid tags, digital authentication devices, prosthetic biometrics, verichip sells, verichip, transmit unique serial
 
 
 
 
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Biometrics in Identity Management Systems

2008-05-22 06:22:46 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
...biometrics by looking more deeply into the basic assumptions made in biometric recognition. He discusses how biometric attributes can be used as verifiers and identifiers, and make suggestions about how people can regain control over how their identities are managed
 
Tags: identity records, records, identity management, biometric recognition, recognition, people, author addresses, natural tool, basic assumptions
 
 
 
 
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In the land of cheese, tulips and biometrics

2008-08-19 06:31:10 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
The Netherlands' innovative use of biometrics improves customer service and reduces fraud
 
Tags: reduces fraud, innovative, netherlands
 
 
 
 
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Biometrics help U.S. soldiers fight terrorism

2008-09-26 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
Biometrics has become a favored security technology by the federal government, which is using it in Iraq to catch bomb makers, safeguard U.S. borders and as a government ID card
 
Tags: government, federal government, biometrics, bomb makers, security technology, safeguard, card, borders, iraq
 
 
 
 
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That thing you do keystroke dynamics

2007-02-19 17:00:11 by Perry Carpenter in Security Renaissance
 
...biometrics Links for further reading/research General info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystroke dynamics http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-1009-6150761.html http://avirubin.com/fgcs.pdf http://et.wcu.edu/aidc/BioWebPages/Biometrics Keystroke.html http://www.computereconomics.com/custom.cfm?name=postPaymentGateway.cfm&id=1185 Vendor...
 
Tags: keystroke dynamics, dynamics, keystroke, speech dynamics, keystroke dynamics systems, authentication, multifactor authentication implementations, authentication factors, biometric authentication
 
 
 
 
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Speaking of Security Podcast #93

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2008-02-11 00:00:00 by Podcast Producers in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast