Beware evil villains and career crooks! Scientists from the Langevin Institute in Paris have just developed a revolutionary fingerprint scanner capable of discerning fake fingerprints from real ones.

There may be a security flaw in the fingerprint sensor that millions of consumers use to unlock their smartphones and use the device to buy products and manage services, including banking chores.

Last year, when the Office of Personnel Management notified 22 million people that their personal information was compromised in a massive data breach, one in four received especially nasty news. For ...

As part of these efforts, authorities arrested 12 male and female employees working at one of the ministries after receiving ...

Hackers out of Germany have already found a workaround to the iPhone 5s' Touch ID system. Using a dummy fingerprint obtained from a real fingerprint, the hacker Starbug was able to unlock a phone in a ...

No two people are believed to have identical fingerprints, but researchers have found that partial similarities between prints are common enough that the fingerprint-based security systems used in ...

I watched the movie , “Get Smart” over the weekend. It has a minor plot point that involves being able to break into a laptop that relies on a flat fingerprint-sensor for access authorization. Maxwell ...

Albuquerque, NM — September 11, 2006 — Lumidigm — Lumidigm, Inc. has introduced the first fingerprint sensor available utilizing multispectral imaging. The J110 is a ruggedized sensor that ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It was exactly a year ago today that Synaptics first announced its FS9100 optical fingerprint sensor “family.” At ...