Engineering
Biometric authentication, which uses unique anatomical features such as fingerprints or facial features to verify a person's identity, is increasingly replacing traditional passwords for accessing everything from smartphones ...
Sep 28, 2020
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Security
Two-factor authentication can be beat, as a hacker demo has shown. Lots of attention is being paid to a video posted where Kevin Mitnick, KnownBe4 chief hacking officer, revealed the two-factor exploit.
Electronics & Semiconductors
Conformable imagers are flexible electronic components that can be placed in direct contact with a human user's skin, recording his/her vital signs or other biological information. Over the past few years, these imagers have ...
Hi Tech & Innovation
Biometric authentication like fingerprint and iris scans are a staple of any spy movie, and trying to circumvent those security measures is often a core plot point. But these days the technology is not limited to spies, as ...
Jun 22, 2022
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Computer Sciences
Google is taking immersive media technology to the next level, showing a practical system for light field video. Wide field of view scenes can be recorded and played back with the ability to move around within the video after ...
Jun 18, 2020
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Internet
Facebook said Tuesday that hackers "scraped" personal data of some half-billion users back in 2019 by taking advantage of a feature designed to help people easily find friends using contact lists.
Apr 7, 2021
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Hardware
William Shakespeare might have been talking about Apple's recently released M1 chip via his prose in A Midnight Summer's Dream: "And though she be but little, she is fierce."
Jun 13, 2022
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Security
A team of computer security experts have developed a set of recommendations to help defend against "thermal attacks" which can steal personal information.
Aug 10, 2023
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Security
In the course of a research project, security experts Matthias Deeg and Philipp Buchegger of penetration-testing company SySS found out something that put Windows Hello in spoofing-attack news this week: They were able to ...
Machine learning & AI
Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have invented a new method of anti-counterfeiting called DeepKey. This security innovation uses two dimensional (2-D)-material tags and artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled ...
Dec 22, 2020
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Authentication (from Greek: αὐθεντικός; real or genuine, from αὐθέντης authentes; author) is the act of confirming the truth of an attribute of a datum or entity. This might involve confirming the identity of a person, tracing the origins of an artifact, ensuring that a product is what its packaging and labeling claims to be, or assuring that a computer program is a trusted one.
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