Tag Archives: Biometric Security

Near-field communication (NFC) payments are fairly common in the UK nowadays, allowing customers to pay for items up to £30 by tapping their card onto a reader. Colloquially dubbed “contactless,” UK bank Natwest is pairing this technology with a fingerprint reader that uncaps the standard limit while forgoing archaic passwords. …

The latest WhatsApp update allows iOS users to add an extra layer of biometric security to the application. Fans of the Facebook-owned chat service will now be able to utilise Apple’s proprietary Touch ID and Face ID thanks to a new feature called Screen Lock. Apple’s fingerprint-based Touch ID has …

Biometric security is on the rise thanks to smartphones utilising fingerprint, retina and facial scanning technology, however vein authentication has regularly been considered superior thanks to its difficult-to-replicate methods.  Or so we thought. Researchers have now revealed that they managed to crack the system with a single image and cheaply-made …