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Ultra Secure Personnel Identification Biometrics Vs. XRF and Elemental Tagging

Today there are many documents and forms of personal identification required for the conduct of business and everyday life. Drivers' licenses, passports, badges and swipe tags for entry into proprietary buildings, are typical forms of identification and access permits. Unfortunately, many of these forms of personal identification are stolen or...

Tags: Identification, Driver, Tagging, Biometrics, Authentication/Encryption, Security

Case studies

Identify and Plan for Risks

Every project involves risk. There are risks that one can manage, and there are other risks that are out of a person's control. Risk identification is a proactive way to safeguard project success by keeping the project on schedule and under budget. To start the risk identification process, one can...

Tags: Project, Identification, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

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AOV Based Fingerprint Minutiae Matching System (zip)

AOV Based Fingerprint Minutiae Matching System - Matlab source code. Minutia matching is the most popular approach to fingerprint recognition. We have developed a novel fingerprint feature named adjacent orientation vector, or AOV, for fingerprint matching. In the first stage, AOV is used to find possible minutiae pairs. Then one...

Tags: Information System, Orientation, Payroll, Luigi Rosa, Payroll Solutions, Operational Accounting, Strategy, Finance, Management

Software downloads 2008-08-31

Face Recognition Based on Statistical Moments (zip)

Face Recognition Based on Statistical Moments - Matlab source code. Moment based feature descriptors have evolved into a powerful tool for image analysis applications. Geometric moments present a low computational cost, but are highly sensitive to noise. We have developed a simple and efficient technique for face recognition that combines:...

Tags: Moment, Face Recognition, Luigi Rosa

Software downloads 2008-08-31

Face Recognition Based On Overlapping DCT (zip)

Face Recognition Based On Overlapping DCT - Matlab source code. In the JPEG image compression algorithm, the input image is divided into 8-by-8 or 16-by-16 blocks, and the two-dimensional DCT is computed for each block. The DCT coefficients are then quantized, coded, and transmitted. The JPEG receiver (or JPEG file...

Tags: Algorithm, Coefficient, JPEG, Face Recognition, Image, Luigi Rosa, DCT Coefficient, Feature Vector, Engineering

Software downloads 2008-08-31

Microsoft to target Windows XP Pro users with Genuine 'nagware' notifications

Microsoft to target Windows XP Pro users with Genuine 'nagware' notificationsI don't know what difference it will makePeople who love Windows will still love Windows. People who hate Windows will still hate Windows. People who pirate Windows will still pirate Windows.RE: Microsoft to target Windows XP Pro users with Genuine...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Pro user, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-08-26

Twitter's "me too" anti-spam strategy

With Twitter's continuing growth, its popularity is logically starting to attract the attention of malicious parties, like spammers, phishers, and malware authors who wouldn't mind the fact that nobody is following them when they're actively updating several hundred users with their latest propositions. Last' week's Twitter announcement...

Tags: Strategy, Anti-spam, Spammer, Twitter, Cyberthreats, Spam, Phishing, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-08-25

Facebook refuses to fix obvious security flaw

[ UPDATE:  Facebook has reversed itself and fixed this vulnerability ]  The Register's Dan Goodin has the scoop on an obvious security vulnerability that's being ignored by the powers at Facebook. The issue, as demonstrated by this proof-of-concept, shows...

Tags: Facebook, Social Networking, Security, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-08-25

Seinfeld and Gates vs. Apple

Seinfeld and Gates vs. AppleIn other wordsThey were successful enough to retire early.Any attempts to potshot these guys may go over well in the ABM community, but the general public will see it as sour grapes. Which means this could actually do what MS wants.Seinfeld? WHO?Oh yeah he had...

Tags: Construction, Desktops, Apple Inc., Seinfeld

Discussion threads 2008-08-21

Get a complete security toolkit with BackTrack 3

The BackTrack LiveCD provides over 300 different tools that can be used by security professionals or system administrators. It includes tools for penetration testing, wireless cracking, network mapping, information gathering, vulnerability identification, forensics, and reverse engineering. Vincent Danen tells you how to create a portable version on a USB keychain.

Tags: Vincent Danen, BackTrack LiveCD, Productivity, Security

Download resources 2008-08-11

CLEAR has a "Senior Moment"

AP Newswire is reporting this morning that CLEAR has found a laptop  also see CLEAR Press Release that had gone missing for over a week from one of its kiosk locations that contained the "personal data" of over 30,000 enrolled members at San Francisco International Airport,...

Tags: Clear, Enrollment, Laptop Computer, AP Newswire, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-08-06

Predictive markets: Can they work for the enterprise?

Predictive markets: Can they work for the enterprise?"questions may not crafted well ..."This is the nub of it. The question in 'real' markets is simple and has a quantitative answer: "what is the right price for this?"The question in derivatives markets is more complex, but still allied to cold, hard...

Tags: Predictive Market

Discussion threads 2008-08-01

SQL Server 2005 Tuning, Optimization, and Troubleshooting

Instantly save $400 off the standard course price when you register on TechRepublic or ZDNet! Offer ends August 22, 2008.View Available Dates and LocationsIn this intensive instructor-led workshop, database developers who work in enterprise environments and use Microsoft SQL Server 2005 will gain the knowledge and skills to...

Tags: Performance, Optimization, Microsoft SQL Server, Knowledge, Operating System, Monitoring, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Storage, Databases, Performance Management, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Training 2008-08-01

Gruppo Venco Revolutionizes CRM Program With Customer Centric Solution

Gruppo Venco wanted to adopt a Customer Relationship Management CRM solution that consolidates all customer information in a single dependable, constantly up-to-date source and rationalizes and integrate data in all the Group's systems, including 13,000 VAT local tax codes in the company's enterprise resource planning system. The challenge was to...

Tags: Oracle Corp., ERP, CRM, Gruppo Venco, Sales Strategy, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Taxes, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Free Trade, Sales, Software, Financial Planning, Finance, Marketing

Case studies 2008-08-01

Airport security part 6: Skimming at airport kiosks

We've talked a lot about airport security here see other links at the bottom of this article, but one thing we haven't covered yet is airport kiosks.  Not that they haven't caught my attention, there's just so much wrong at the airport, it takes time to cover it all.  Richard...

Tags: Credit Card, Airport Security, Airport Kiosk, Stiennon, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-28

NY gov signs game bill into law

NY gov signs game bill into law"A bill that will have made it illegal"????Wow.RE: NY gov signs game bill into lawThe panel needs to include parents - real parents who have to deal with these games, the consoles, how the game developers create games that force a child to keep...

Tags: Games, gaming industry, game

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

E-gold owners plead guilty to money laundering

E-gold owners plead guilty to money launderingGoodbye privacy?Cash leads to crime, too. Should we enforce credit/debit card payments only? If so, let's ban gold trading altogether!I will be obvious and boring then...[Please excuse my poor "Engrish" and my rushed-up style.]Hi guys.I don't agree with your opinion and thought a very...

Tags: Identity theft, Taxes, Free trade, Financial accounting, Financial Planning, Financial services, bank transaction, e-Gold, tax, financial

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

FacePresence (zip)

A software to check the presence of employees. Different with other presence machine, FacePresence uses face recognition technology with the highest recognition accuracy. The checking process is very fast therefore no need for a queue. 5 employees, no presence reports, and low accuracy. Version 1 has identification process within seconds...

Tags: Face Recognition, Rawid Media Software

Software downloads 2008-07-15

Internet abuse and Cloud Computing

Internet abuse and Cloud ComputingAgreed - principle, not practiceI do think MacOS is better than Vista on almost all measures - and by that same standard that one side in the current U.S. elections has the right.As you say:---Oh and by the way I don't vote on ideological lines anymore...

Tags: hypocrisy, cloud computing, Google Inc., Internet

Discussion threads 2008-07-05

Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 1: USA

Eek, from Slashdot today: The FBI has confirmed to Popular Mechanics that it's not only adding palm prints to its criminal records, but preparing to balloon its repository of photos, which an agency official says 'could be the basis for our facial recognition.' It's all part of a new...

Tags: FBI, Privacy, Washington Post Co., Slashdot, Government, Federal Government, Security, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-06-30