Wavestore, a developer of video recording solutions, has announced a partnership agreement with biometrics developer Airborne Biometrics Group (ABG) that will see its facial recognition technology incorporated into Wavestore’s product offerings. ABG’s FaceFirst software will be utilized with Wavestore’s surveillance technology to enable a solution that can alert security or police personnel when a registered […]

L-1 Identity Solutions is being sued by fellow biometrics developer Identity Verification Solutions (IVS) for infringement on a patent titled “Verification Server for Use in Authentication Networks,” a server that handles biometric authentication, according to a Cipher Law Group article. Specifically, IVS alleges that L-1 is infringing on the process language in the patent that […]

Frost and Sullivan released a white paper, A Best Practices Guide to Fingerprint Biometrics, that details challenges for identity and access management (IAM) solutions and how fingerprint biometrics can meet the needs of the industries. The consultancies states that fingerprint biometrics provide a good solution because it provides high security and convenience for users while […]

DAP Technologies announced the release of a new series of personal digital assistants (PDAs) that, in addition to many internal technology upgrades, also has an optional biometric module that attaches to the device. The device, called the DAP M2000, includes, in addition to the fingerprint-based biometric scanner module, touch screen interface, a 520 MHz processor, […]

MorphoTrust USA, the security and credentialing division of Safran, has announced the appointment of Robert Eckel to the position of chief executive officer of the MorphoTrust division. Eckel became part of Safran when it acquired biometrics developer L-1 Identity Solutions, where he served as president of the Secure Credentialing division. In July 2011 L-1 merged […]

The International Organization for Standards (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) have put out a new international standard to ensure security of biometric data processed online, according to a Manufacturing.Net article. The new standard, called ISO/IEC 24745, was created out of a concern for the increasing use of biometric technologies for online authentication in […]

Research from the American Payroll Association has identified that time theft caused by buddy punching, the act of hourly employees punching someone in or out when they are not at work, can account for up to five percent of the gross payroll in places such as Quick Service restaurants (QSR), according to a QSR Web […]

Stewart Heffernan, CEO at OmniPerception, has come out against privacy advocates and a study from Carnegie Mellon University that says facial recognition technology is a threat to the privacy of people in their everyday activities, according to an Info Security article. Chiefly among his reasons for rejecting the study is that identifying people by their […]

ESSC, a developer of electronic security and network cabling solutions, has announced the release of a new biometric safe designed for health care to secure narcotics in an effort to reduce employee and patient theft. The safe, called MedixSafe, utilizes three-factor authentication to open including a PIN, proximity card and fingerprint scan. The new solution […]

A Google Group called “London Riots Facial Recognition” has been formed online with a goal of leveraging facial recognition and large public groups to find a way to positively identify those involved in the looting and rioting in London, according to a Tech Crunch article. While the group’s moderator and respective members have attempted to […]