Two hackers managed to trick a vein scanning system just by using a simple wax hand. As the name suggests, vein authentication systems use a computer to scan and verify a user's veins by studying ...

The new Global ID patent illustrates a system that reads finger vein patterns in 3D to provide biometric access to ...

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, ...

More than 1,000 Swedish shoppers have signed up to make payments with a simple swipe of their hand, using new technology that 'reads' the patterns of their veins. The developers hope hand scanning ...

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