Despite the astronomical growth of smartphones and tablets, and the rise in applications allowing consumers to purchase both virtual and real goods from their mobile devices, mobile commerce still ...

I’m still on my quest to find good user authentication techniques that can supplement or replace the old username and password scheme. In this age of spoofing, phishing and stolen IDs, we need strong ...

Healthcare data breaches are not only costly but potentially life-threatening. Altered or corrupted medical data can lead to ...

The government has revealed plans for a national proof-of-identity scheme that privacy campaigners say has echoes of the ID card project that was scrapped less than six months ago. The identity ...

Are passwords passé? A couple of weeks ago, the “Seattle Post-Intelligencer” ran an Associated Press story that described various multi-factor authentication schemes, such as password-plus-biometric ...

Finger vein authentication scheme is a non-imitable biometric authentication scheme. By using this biometric authentication, the authors can prevent the non-license from driving. So they will avoid ...

Schools should implement an open source authentication system to give parents and pupils secure access to online content, says a government organisation. Becta, the UK government's education IT ...

From the user point of view, security and efficiency are the two main factors for any authentication scheme. However, most of the smart card authentication schemes are vulnerable to one or the other ...