Doctors in Brazil are using phony silicon fingers to fool biometric scanners. Sneaky? Sure. But you really gotta hand it to them. We all know passwords suck – they’re hard to remember, a pain in the ...

Researchers armed with a $2,000 budget and 13 smartphones, laptops, and other devices found it's possible to bypass fingerprint authentication with duplicate prints made on a cheap 3D printer. Their ...

Just a few years ago, the thought of employees being able to "punch in" at work using their fingerprint seemed like pure science fiction. Today, fingerprint-based biometrics is widely used as a go-to ...

Gone are the days when fingerprint scanners were limited to only the top-of-the-line smartphones. These days, phones priced as low as $100, come equipped with a fingerprint scanner to authenticate ...

Using a biometric scanner on your credit card makes your transactions more secure, but it might not solve any real issues. Evan Zimmer has been writing about finance for years. After graduating with a ...