On February 6, at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, Andy Rolfe of Authentify and Dr. Stephen Elliot of Purdue University presented the results of a study on Authentify's implementation of voice biometrics/speaker verification. It should be noted that this study should not be considered to be a statement on voice biometrics on the whole, but on a specific implementation of a a single vendor's hosted authentication solution.  read more »

OpenID, the most visible of the new identity management schemas - and CardSpace, Microsoft's browser based initiative to help users control and protect their identity online have decided to play nicely together in the User-Centric Identity space. The press release is here .

A team consisting of Microsoft, VeriSign, Sxip and JanRain has been assembled to implement the new interoperability model.  read more »

RSA Conference

Moscone Center, San Francisco

http://www.rsaconference.com

 

On January 19, Wired News posted an article about the upcoming release of biometrically secured ATMs in rural India (see article at http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72284-0.html?tw=rss.index).  read more »

Washington DC
http://www.voicebiocon.com

On January 11, C|Net reported that Paypal will now start offering its VIP One-Time-PIN generating tokens to users in an attempt to defeat phishing attacks, reduce overall fraud and increase customer confidence.  read more »

On January 11, Government Security (a magazine and online site that promotes technology for the "protection of the homeland") published a piece entitled Majority of Americans support biometrics in IDs.

The results were interesting, if not necessarily groundbreaking.  read more »

Security experts have always considered the world of behavioral biometrics to be a bit arcane.  read more »

File this under the category: just because you can do something doesn't mean you necessarily should do something. There's been a good amount of recent chatter online regarding the upcoming IE and Firefox plugins for the Polar Rose photo indexing service. Similar to the initial intent of almost-acquired-by-Google Riya, Polar Rose's goal is to create a search engine for faces in photos. As quoted from the company website:

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