Credit card giant MasterCard has shared plans to do away with passwords in online payments, with an all-new authentication standard to eventually replace 3D Secure.
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Oxford and Cambridge in the race to eliminate passwords
Cambridge University are working on a technology-oriented approach where multiple small devices create an “electronic aura”, enabling a main device to transmit a unique identification signal. Meanwhile a company spun out of an Oxford University programme is developing more biomechanical methods of recognising people based on the way they move, behave and interact with devices.
Are your veins going to replace your PIN at the ATM?
Hitachi are rolling out around 2,000 new cash machines in Poland that take a new approach to biometrics. The infrared scanner on one of these new ATMs will literally get under your skin as it scans the veins inside your finger. A similar technology has also been devised for shops in America by Fujitsu. 