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• Bergdata Biometrics GmbH - Fingerprint Identification Systems - Top Navigation .
• Nevertheless, very rarely there are fingerprints without any minutiae-points that leads to a failure to enroll (FER = Failure to Enroll Rate). ...
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• Bergdata Biometrics announces its new well-designed USB-Fingerprintscanner with the new digital Atmel FingerChip™.

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• The card, which is smaller than a stick of chewing gum, can register and verify fingerprints of users for applications such as computer log on, unlocking of encrypted data files, or the digital signing of documents.
• Speedier Scanning The FIU-900 works in a similar way to the FIU-710, storing and registering fingerprints in its 512KB of internal memory, and there are several differences to the two devices beyond their size. ...

• Forensic applications of automatic fingerprint identification systems have to deal with partial and latent fingerprints. ...
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• Our fingerprints are formed during fetal development- nature's way of providing sensitized touch and friction for grip.

• Touching SAP Data: User Access and Biometrics.
• Enterprises can record when users access data in an SAP system, but biometrics makes it possible to add physical evidence to the log.
• Biometrics: the word alone conjures the enormous post-9/11 hype over facial recognition. ...
• While biometrics isn’t a cure-all, it does have more realistic enterprise application. ...
• Biometrics seeks to remove the doubt. ...
• Neudenberger says rollout is on the order of “hours,” plus the time security managers need to gather employees’ digital fingerprints, typically done department-by-department, before enabling the software. ...
• While fingerprints aren’t the only biometric possibility today, he notes, but “it’s the one that is most accepted at the moment, plus the hardware costs are the cheapest at the moment. ...
• You can contact Mathew Schwartz about Touching SAP Data: User Access and Biometrics at Mat@PenandCamera. ...

• Visitors seeking a UK visa will, in due course, be required to provide a biometric - fingerprints, iris or facial recognition scans - at point of application. ...
• Biometrics can play a big part in tackling illegal immigration and abuse of our asylum system and by embracing it we can reduce further the pull factor to the UK," he added. ...
• Since July, everyone applying for a UK visa in Sri Lanka has been required to provide a record of their fingerprints as part of a six month pilot. ...
• "Biometrics are already helping tackle fraud in the asylum system and can help tighten our borders further, particularly through close working with other industrialised countries," he added. ...
• UK passports will feature biometrics from 2005. ...

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• Even the hardest-to-read fingerprints are captured accurately and quickly, regardless of placement angle. ...
• Works well with dry, moist, or rough fingerprints .
• Automatically erases latent fingerprints .

• Instead of finally laying its cards on the table, the biometrics line of business prefers to hide behind error rates it has measured itself.
• The first approach relies on tricking the biometrics system with the aid of artificially created data whilst making use of the regular sensor technology of the system; a precondition for this approach being spy-work that gets hold of more or less easily obtainable biometric features such as an image of a face or a fingerprint. ...
• The second scenario also entails tricking the biometrics system with artificial data. ...
• In our attempts at outfoxing the protective programs and devices we have concentrated on the first method: direct attempts at deceiving the systems with the aid of obvious procedures (such as the reactivation of latent images) and obvious feature forgeries (photographs, videos, silicon fingerprints). ...
• Even though the range of products tested was not complete it did on the whole reflect market conditions: The great majority of the currently available biometrics products relies on features of the fingers for user identification. ... All other devices and programs such as make use of language recognition, hand geometry measurement, signature recognition or keyboard touch dynamics taken together have only a marginal share of the security biometrics industry's overall turnover.
• The technology profits especially from the fact that some of its features are already integrated into the living conditions and habits of PC users: Many people are a good deal more familiar and comfortable with gazing into a camera than, for instance, having their eyes scanned by infrared beams or their fingerprints 'taken' by a device, the latter procedure perhaps awkwardly evoking images of criminal investigations.
• The most common method for distinguishing fingerprints is based on the so-called minutiae, the 'small details'. ...
• Although this according to the manufacturer's statements should have been impossible we were able several times to reactivate by simply breathing upon them traces of fat left by fingerprints upon the sensor's surface, thereby overcoming the biometric protection of the system. ...
• It was also possible to reactivate latent fingerprints by carefully placing a thin-walled water-filled plastic bag onto the sensor's surface. ...
• Whereas we were only intermittently successful at overcoming the biometrics barrier when using the breathing or the water bag method our success rate with the adhesive film technique when the latent fingerprints were of good quality was almost one hundred percent.
• With the aid a fingerprinting kit that the regional Criminal Investigation Department of the German federal state of Lower Saxony was generous enough to make available to us we took fingerprints from glasses and CDs. ...
• The second most frequent manner in which fingerprints are currently mechanically scanned is the optical one. ...
• Only on the basis of silicon copies of authentic fingerprints were we able to score some successes: With their aid we repeatedly surmounted the biometric-access protection barrier. ...
• Referring explicitly to the report on biometrics by c't magazine (c't edition 5/02) Ms. ...
• As there are presently at least five totally different biometrics approaches vying for the customers' favor and the scale of a later application at a total of 70 million owners of German ID documents is clearly defined, the testing is likely, from a technical point of view at least, to take up some time yet.

• Craig Watson of NIST’s IT Lab examines one of millions of fingerprints used to evaluate accuracy of biometric identifiers.
• NIST identifies good and bad points of biometrics .
• Fingerprints work pretty well, but accuracy needs to be better for widescale use.
• Although courts have accepted fingerprints as positive identification for more than a century, automating the use of unique physical identifiers remains problematic. ...
• “As a practical matter, simply using biometrics by itself doesn’t work,” he said, because all biometric systems make errors. ...
• International biometric standards for travel documents call for using iris scans, fingerprints or facial recognition. ...
• Fingerprints have a 95 percent chance of recognition with 1 percent false positives. ...

• Biometrics at heart of collaboration between SecuGen and Autostar.
•  Using the SEIR (Surface Enhanced Irregular Reflection) technology, even dry or low resolution fingerprints can be enrolled and verified. ...
• Biometrics is an automated technology that recognizes an individual based on his or her physical characteristics. ...
• As a trusted source for reliable hardware and software products, SecuGen is committed to ongoing research and development in biometrics technology.

• Iris, fingerprints and face to be used in ID card trial.
• The pilot will test iris pattern and fingerprint biometrics enrolment and verification, as well as collection and verification of a facial recognition biometric. ...
• NEC said that, based on its experience with the Singapore Immigration Authority, it has seen the dramatic impact that biometrics can have on improving access to public services and in tackling crime and illegal immigration. ...
• Biometrics unveiled for US-bound Brits.
• Why use fingerprints when it is known that they ar. ...

• Will Fingerprint Biometrics Give Web Subscription Services a Boost?.
• But, new technologies indicate that it might not be long before software and hardware providers join forces to protect subscriptions, through the best option in authentication: biometrics. ...
• In a few isolated instances, biometrics is already providing the ideal authentication to subscription services. A major financial services subscription provider has made biometrics a part of its hundreds of thousands of terminals used by analysts signing on for use of its sensitive, real-time financial news, market data and analysis. The company looks at this strategic use of biometrics as such a competitive advantage that it prefers to keep the news "under wraps. ...
• ASPs could position the use of biometrics as an important security strategy as well: one that would help customers to better protect their Web-hosted data, from the physical access perspective. ...
• Or, if the ASP sends a representative to the company site for initial set-up, the representative could enroll users' fingerprints. ...
• Biometrics are coming to desktops for a variety of reasons, including security of corporate files, avoidance of identity theft and a just-plain easier way to deal with the headaches of password management. ...
• Organizations like the BSA and others associated with Web-based software services would do well to work together with hardware and operating systems developers to ensure that biometrics come built-in to PCs for the enterprise market: sooner rather than later. ...

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• Although behavior-based biometrics can be less expensive and less threatening to users, physiological traits tend to offer greater accuracy and security. ...
• Studies have also found that using fingerprints as an identification source is the least intrusive of all biometric techniques. ...
• One of the biggest fears of fingerprint technology is the theft of fingerprints. ... In order to avoid many complete comparisons of fingerprints, a fingerprint is generally first classified, or grouped, as belonging to a certain class of fingerprints. ...
• The biometrics of a handwritten signature is based not only on the shape of the signature but more importantly on selected signature dynamics. ...
• Other disadvantages of hand geometry authentication include a relative lack of hand uniqueness (as compared to other biometric characteristics, such as fingerprints) and the possibility of hand deformation. ...

• Biometrics is the science of using digital technology to identify individuals based on the individual's unique physical and biological qualities. Simply, biometrics is the technique of verifying a person's identity from a physical characteristic (i. ...
• Biometrics can be separated into two classifications: physiological characteristics and behavioral ones.
• Common Physiological biometric identifiers include fingerprints, hand geometry, eye patterns, and facial features.
• Biometrics also includes technologies, such as iris or retinal measurements of the eye. ...
• Like fingerprints, no two individual iris structures are alike. ...
• In the area of behavioral biometrics are voice recognition technologies that include telephone authentication. ...

• In other words, the fingerprints you have innocently left on a glass in a bar could possibly be used to fool fingerprint scanners. ...
• Biometrics are increasingly touted as a solution to all sorts of identification problems, from terrorism to credit card fraud. ...
• One problem with biometrics is that once a form of biometric identity is compromised, that's it. ... However, if criminals have compromised your fingerprints, you can't get new fingers. ... For more on the problems of biometrics, see Bruce Scheier in 1998 (Biometrics: Truths and Fictions). ...
• A laptop is likely covered by many of the owner's latent fingerprints. ...
• To first enroll in the system, "customers show a Kroger representative their driver's license and a credit card, and have their fingerprints recorded. ...
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• Wednesday, January 14, 2004 By Liza Porteus NEW YORK — Going to the airport soon could resemble a scene from "Mission Impossible" — security personnel snap your photo and scan your fingerprints, analysts run your name through a web of computer systems and the government assigns you a color to designate your threat potential.
• Called US-VISIT, which operates in 115 airports and 14 seaports, the government is using biometrics (search) — technology that identifies people using biological traits, such as those based on retinal or iris scanning, fingerprints, or face recognition — to verify the identities of many foreign visitors with non-immigrant visas. ...
• Digital fingerprints and photographs are recorded and terror watch lists are checked to make sure potential terrorists don't enter the country. ...
• But some technologies, such as those that use biometrics, are coming under fire for being too intrusive. ...
• , wrote a letter to Ridge last month citing concern over biometrics-based technologies. ...

• Vendors boost biometrics for homeland.
• Multimodal biometrics, such as fingerprint scans and facial recognition, are the only way to positively identify an individual, said Mike DePasquale, chief executive officer for Bio-key International Inc. ...
• Revell, also speaking at the conference, noted that people who have not been arrested, are not in the military or are not government workers likely do not have their fingerprints in the national database. ...

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• ISL Biometrics is a leader in the design and manufacture of biometric security software. ISL has developed a range of quality, easy-to-install, easy-to-support biometric security solution products to address all network and remote access control needs including the use of fingerprints, smart cards or USB tokens. ...

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• Each image must be recognized once and must be rejected 7 times when being compared with the other 7 different fingerprints. ...
• end Clicking “Biometrics/Fingerprints 2” can generate the batch code for Image 2 (B Cut = 2). ...
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•  Border Cut = 8 (Click Biometrics/Fingerprint8). ...
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• Are Your Customers Ready for Biometrics?.
• You can now use biometrics for point-of-sale purchases. ...
• A: What you refer to is called biometric technology, which measures human traits such as fingerprints, retinas and irises, voice and facial patterns, and sizes and shapes of hands. ...
• Despite these challenges, biometrics can offer merchants a reduction in fraud and chargebacks (disputed transactions), faster transaction turnaround times, easier-to-manage loyalty programs and improved reporting methods. ...
• To encourage customers to use this new technology, some retailers have tied fingerprint identification registration to customer loyalty programs by offering additional loyalty points to those who register their fingerprints. ...
• Reduce fraud because fingerprints are unique to each individual and cannot be forged. ...

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• The resulting high quality image is consistent even with dry or difficult fingerprints. ...

• Technology Analysis: Biometrics Safeguards Mobile Gear, Bank Cards.
• With the rise in danger from theft and terrorism, manufacturers have become especially interested in biometrics, and a host of practical applications for fingerprint and retina recognition are coming on line.
• Technologies for recognizing fingerprints or retinal blood vessel patterns have been primarily used for controlling entry to and exit from buildings, but recently they have been achieving widespread usage in applications like mobile phones and money cards (Fig 1). ...
• Both fingerprint and retina pattern recognition are biometrics technologies, used to identify individuals on the basis of their physical characteristics. ...
• There is some resistance among the general public to using fingerprints, but surveys indicate that this resistance is unexpectedly low among the younger generations. ...
• There are several methods used by contact sensors to detect fingerprints, such as electrostatic capacity, analysis of optical and thermal properties, etc. ...

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• NIST supports multiple biometrics for border security.
• The Password is Biometrics.
• Pu and other technical staffers began thinking about biometrics to solve the problem.
• “We started talking about how nice it would be to be able to use some kind of biometrics — fingerprints, handwriting recognition, or voice recognition, for example — for identification. ...
• The computer system next tries to locate an encrypted software algorithm representing the employee's fingerprints. Whenever a match is found between the actual fingerprints and the algorithm, employees gain access to software programs running on their desktops.
• “Calls to the help desk for password assistance are now way down,” he says, “But about six to 10 percent of our employee population cannot use the fingerprint readers, because their fingerprints are too faint. ...
• Pu describes the high-contrast stamp pads as “moisture-based components that refresh the fingerprints. ...

• ALL Australians who need a visa for travel to the US must provide fingerprints for matching against a US immigration database before being granted an entry permit.
• Ms Johnson said fingerprint biometrics would allow US authorities to accurately identify visa holders. ...
• "In short, there is no recourse in Australia for any misuse of fingerprints obtained for visa purposes by the US Government. ...
• Australia is further along the biometrics compliance track than most nations. ...

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