A fingerprint scanner is a small electronic device that guards your computer from intruders. You place your fingertip on the reader; it scans your fingerprint and compares it to the prints stored in ...

We’ve got two hacks in one from [Serge Rabyking] on fingerprint scanning. Just before leaving on a trip he bought a laptop on the cheap. He didn’t pay much attention to the features and was ...

Security is of foremost concern to businesses and their employees. Keeping company and personal information confidential can be tricky. With so many devices in use today, it's hard to keep everything ...

I've always had a fascination with fingerprint readers. I have always liked the idea of using my fingerprint in order to access files, web sites, or my computer. With that in mind, I rounded up four ...

Maybe you suspected this already, but researchers at MSU Computer Science just published a paper explaining just how easy it is to spoof a fingerprint scanner with a ink-jet printed scan of a finger.

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Microsoft has unveiled a nifty new keyboard with a clever little security measure built into it. One of its keys is not like the others, instead housing a fingerprint scanner that can be used to ...