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Exponential hacking of biometric authentication reveals some defenses already overwhelmed
iProov's global monitoring center finds that attacks involving mobile phone emulators on desktops rose 149 percent and digital injection face swap attacks are up 295 percent .. read the full report here

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Biometric Update Daily News
FaceTec beats BIPA accusations
FaceTec has been quietly dropped from allegations of wrongdoing under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act, in recognition of its role...
 
Rank One biometric algorithms integrated with MOSIP foundational digital ID platform
Rank One Computing has joined the MOSIP ecosystem as a partner to provide its biometric algorithms to foundational ID systems...
US talks the talk with digital ID. Maybe officials walk to success
The United States trails many nations when it comes to digital identity rules, projects and completions, but federal and state...
 
Porn back as political hurdle for age verification in UK, Australia takes next step
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been prompted by his Conservative Party members to increase the strictness of age security...
Colombian civil registry adopting face biometric authentication for remote processes
The National Registry of Civil Status and the Collegiate Union of the Colombian Notary have agreed to allow civil registration...
 
Exponential hacking of biometric authentication reveals some defenses already overwhelmed
“Motion-based is completely broken,” says Andrew Bud, founder and CEO, iProov, of biometric identity authentication where users are asked to...
Liberia, Nigeria test biometric election equipment ahead of full deployment
Liberia’s National Elections Commission (NEC) has begun a trial voter registration exercise to test the functionality of biometric voter registration...
 
World Bank is helping the displaced in Mozambique get IDs, birth certificates
There has been respite for thousands of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Mozambique as a civil registration and ID card...
Identomat passes level 2 biometric PAD compliance test from iBeta
Biometric onboarding and KYC solution provider Identomat has announced it has received confirmation of ISO/IEC 30107-03 compliance after passing a...
 
Worldcoin shares details of open-source, iris biometrics-scanning ‘Orb’
Cryptocurrency company Worldcoin has published a new blog post describing the “Orb,” the company’s iris biometric imaging device. “After three...
Locking incognito tabs with biometrics and pulling out a key ring to log on – new security
A couple advances in securing one’s data have been introduced, although one just does not feel like an advance. Google...
 
CardLab licenses biometric access card technology to Italian cybersecurity startup
Biometric card technologies from CardLab have been licensed by Italy-based WiBioCard to build a fully integrated card and back-end authentication...
Face and fingerprint biometrics for retail payments advancing by inches
Biometric technologies for retail payments made up a pair of the most-read articles of the week on Biometric Update, in...
 
No facial recognition at 2024 Olympics, French privacy watchdog tells parliament
The French parliament has been urged not to consider deploying facial recognition at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics event by...
 
 
 
 
 
 
Biometrics White Papers
Multispectral imaging (MSI) fingerprint technology
Organizations increasingly rely on digital technologies to validate identities for secure interactions and services such as banking transactions, medication dispensing,...
 
The ultimate retail experience starts with facial recognition
As digital transformation sweeps across our society, bringing together the physical and virtual worlds, the retail space is changing in...
How biometric technology is reinventing patient identification
It’s hard to care for patients if you don’t know who they are. Yet while patient identification systems have come...
 
On-demand webinar – Demographic Bias in Facial Liveness Detection: Impact, Measurement, and Mitigation
AI-powered facial liveness detection algorithms can introduce bias the same way matching algorithms can, causing mobile banking services to be...
Events and Webinars
Ethics, biometrics and AI: the good, the bad and the ugly – Why European Parliament’s concerns are probably disproportionate
  January 31, 2023
ID4Africa LiveCast – Civil registration in Africa: Scaling for impact
  February 8, 2023
Aviation Festival Asia 2023
  February 28, 2023 - March 1, 2023
World Police Summit
  March 7, 2023 - March 9, 2023
7th Edition Connected Banking Summit East Africa
  March 7, 2023