Scientists have developed a technique for preventing the extraction of finger vein patterns from photographs. The technique involves the wearing of a clear sticker on the finger. It can prevent ...

With fingerprint scanners so mainstream that most new notebooks have them as at least an option, together with stories that they can be fooled with a Gummi Bear, any security-obsessed person wanting ...

On the heels of its recent development of Finger Vein Authentication Technology, Hitachi is showing off a similar system designed to thwart car thieves. To start the car, the driver needs to slide his ...

Apple wants to improve the security of Face ID and other visual-based biometric systems to eliminate the so-called "twin problem," by taking advantage of the unique and hard to copy patterns of veins ...

A New York City hospital has stopped asking many patients to dig out health insurance cards and fill in endless forms, instead identifying them by scanning the unique lattice of veins in their palm.

Finger vein authentication is a biological authentication technique that has become widely used for personal authentication at bank ATMs and elsewhere. Since finger veins lie beneath the skin, ...