Showing posts with label biometrics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label biometrics. Show all posts
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Competition for Authenticating Mobile Phones via Biometrics Heats Up
An August 14 item on ThirdFactor.com announced that Animetrics has released new facial recognition authentication on certain mobile phones.
According to the article, “the service, called FaceR CredentialME, is available on devices using the Android, Windows Mobile and RIM operating systems on the Sprint 3G or 4G networks and was launched in conjunction with Troy Security Solutions, a mobile products and solutions provider.”
“The biometric service allows a user to authenticate their identity via unique characteristics in their face recorded from the phone’s embedded camera for anything such as basic online services or corporate specific services. Further, the biometric authentication can be used to entirely replace standard login methods or layered on top of them as a second factor of authentication.”
This announcement comes on the heels of PerSay’s introduction of a voice biometrics solution for iPhones and Bio-Key’s upcoming release of a fingerprint biometrics solution for mobile phones.
The race is on!
According to the article, “the service, called FaceR CredentialME, is available on devices using the Android, Windows Mobile and RIM operating systems on the Sprint 3G or 4G networks and was launched in conjunction with Troy Security Solutions, a mobile products and solutions provider.”
“The biometric service allows a user to authenticate their identity via unique characteristics in their face recorded from the phone’s embedded camera for anything such as basic online services or corporate specific services. Further, the biometric authentication can be used to entirely replace standard login methods or layered on top of them as a second factor of authentication.”
This announcement comes on the heels of PerSay’s introduction of a voice biometrics solution for iPhones and Bio-Key’s upcoming release of a fingerprint biometrics solution for mobile phones.
The race is on!
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Voice Biometrics is in the Army Now!
According to an item in “Government Computer News”, the United States Army is developing a major biometrics depository – including voice. The biometrics information is captured from all foreign nationals, including local nationals and third-country nationals, who are eligible to access bases in areas of conflict.
The article describes the process as follows: “It starts with the person’s employer filling out a paper application, knowing what privileges they should have and whether they should be escorted or not. That goes into an automated system along with the person’s biometric information and gets vetted against databases in West Virginia, which includes the FBI database. So then that information — hit [or] no hit — gets fed back to somebody at the local base, because every local commander gets to decide who can or can’t come on his base. And based on that information, whether it’s innocuous or whether they think it shows a threat, as well as other sources of information, they make a decision whether to allow that person on base. If they say “yes,” then the person is badged with a card that looks a lot like a Common Access Card.”
When the person arrives at the base, their card is first checked to ensure validity. Their biometrics (sample) are then compared against the biometrics (base) stored on the card to ensure that the person is who they claim to be.
The article describes the process as follows: “It starts with the person’s employer filling out a paper application, knowing what privileges they should have and whether they should be escorted or not. That goes into an automated system along with the person’s biometric information and gets vetted against databases in West Virginia, which includes the FBI database. So then that information — hit [or] no hit — gets fed back to somebody at the local base, because every local commander gets to decide who can or can’t come on his base. And based on that information, whether it’s innocuous or whether they think it shows a threat, as well as other sources of information, they make a decision whether to allow that person on base. If they say “yes,” then the person is badged with a card that looks a lot like a Common Access Card.”
When the person arrives at the base, their card is first checked to ensure validity. Their biometrics (sample) are then compared against the biometrics (base) stored on the card to ensure that the person is who they claim to be.
Monday, May 3, 2010
New iPhone biometrics application? Not sure…
An article on “The New Zealand Herald” Website, states that a New Zealand technology company, FeelGudApps, has developed a new biometrics application for the iPhone. The developers claim that the app, named ‘Feelie’, can broadcast how you're feeling to registered recipients. The item goes on to describe how Feelie works.
Feelie monitors a person’s behavior (e.g., terseness of texts and emails, amount of movement, etc.) for two to three days. A base profile is then constructed based on data from psychological studies. From then on, the person's emotional state is dynamically updated and broadcast to their registered recipients. A color-coded tinge over the person’s profile picture identifies how they're feeling as follows:
• Yellow – happy
• Blue - calm
• Green – nervous
• Purple - lying
• Red – angry
I was hoping to put Feelie through its paces -- to see if there was a voice biometrics angle to be exploited. Unfortunately, I could not find any reference to the app in the iTunes store. Too good to be true?
Feelie monitors a person’s behavior (e.g., terseness of texts and emails, amount of movement, etc.) for two to three days. A base profile is then constructed based on data from psychological studies. From then on, the person's emotional state is dynamically updated and broadcast to their registered recipients. A color-coded tinge over the person’s profile picture identifies how they're feeling as follows:
• Yellow – happy
• Blue - calm
• Green – nervous
• Purple - lying
• Red – angry
I was hoping to put Feelie through its paces -- to see if there was a voice biometrics angle to be exploited. Unfortunately, I could not find any reference to the app in the iTunes store. Too good to be true?
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