FBI Director Robert Mueller testified in front of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on the Judiciary about the IT advance the agency is making. Of particular note is the FBI’s Next Generation Identification system that will add other biometric technologies and information to the criminal database. “It will also produce faster returns of information, […]

More than 200 Southwest Airlines pilots will participate in a biometric screening program at Baltimore Washington International Airport over the next two months. The SecureScreen program is using biometric and identification technology from Chicago-based Priva Technologies. Southwest pilots participating in SecureScreen undergo enrollment using Priva’s Cleared Security Platform, which stores their fingerprints, photograph, and other […]

Cryptomathic has released a new product that the company says will accelerate the speed of inspecting electronic passports. There have been concerns about the time it will take for e-passports to be read at border checkpoints with extended access control (EAC) systems. EAC is an additional security protocol that will be used on European Union […]

Slovenia is going to deploy extended access control with its second generation electronic passport. Entrust Inc. will work with the country to implement the new security in the travel document. Slovenia’s second-generation e-passport, which will be integrated by technology partner S&T, represent a components of the country’s citizen-centric e-government. Their e-government services enable secure time-stamping […]

NXP Semiconductors says its newest security chip processes transactions twice as fast, 3.5 seconds, as the current industry standard for contactless smart card chips. The SmartMX, the P5CD081, also features Secure Fetch technology, providing enhanced protection against attack scenarios with light and lasers (so-called fault attacks). NXP is involved in more than 85% of all […]

The U.S. Department of State has ordered an upgrade from Precise Biometrics, a fingerprint authentication technology developer, to its match-on-card system. The upgrade, costing $620,000, consists of adding Windows Vista support to the existing infrastructure as well as on-site support and integration services provided by Precise. The Precise Match-On-Card system enables the fingerprint data of […]

CEM Systems, an Ireland based developer of access control devices, has developed a device, called the S610f, with three-factor authentication that consists of an IP card reader, fingerprint reader and a PIN input, according to a Security Park article. The device features a Suprema SFM3000 series fingerprint reader. Read the full story here   

The Empire Ballroom, a nightclub in Edmonton, had its recently installed thumbprint reader, intended to track employee punching in and out of work, declared legal by the province’s privacy commissioner on high-tech devices, according to a Vancouver Sun article. The investigation by the commissioner was started after a female employee complained that the device was […]

What better way to demonstrate your electronic locking system than at a police college? That’s what SALTO Systems has done at the National Police Forensic Training College at Harperley Hall in County Durham in the northeastern part of England. The company secured 80 bedrooms, multi-function classrooms and other facilities at the college with proximity locks. […]

TURBINE (TrUsted Revocable Biometric IdeNtitiEs), kind of a complicated acronym, but that goes along with the complexity of the project. The European Union-funded project involves finding a way to securely identify users by means of fingerprints, in which the biometric data used is protected by cryptographic technology. The EU has given the project more than […]