Monthly Archives: January 2020
Afghanistan awards $8 million printing contract to Poland
Afghanistan’s National Procurement Authority (NPA) says the contract for printing afghani banknotes has been awarded to Polish Security Printing Works (PWPW).
According to the NPA,...
Security by Design: Three Inks in a Fountain
Joel Zlotnick, Jordan Brough and Troy Eberhardt
This is the last of this paper series, which has introduced innovative security design strategies that interrupt reverse...
Biometric scanners monitor police
Police officers in The Philippines and Canada will from now on be monitored with biometric systems.
According to reports, police officers in The Philippines’ capital...
Consumers ‘prefer biometrics to passwords’
The way we shop will continue to change in 2020 – with nearly 20 billion devices predicted to be online and new standards like...
Vein Pattern Recognition a huge contender in biometrics
An introduction to Vein Pattern Recognition
Vein Pattern Recognition, also known as “VPR” for short, is the latest biometric technology to be developed and come...
Bangladesh launches e-passport distribution
Bangladesh will release their new e-passport on 22 January.
North East Now reports that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will launch the e-passport distribution at the...
Myanmar note celebrates Aung San
A new 1000-kyat banknote was introduced by the Central Bank of Myanmar on 4 January.
The new note features a portrait of Aung San.
General Aung...
ODS to showcase innovation in document protection
New ways to identify fake security devices on banknotes, passports and other secured documents will be at the heart of the Optical Document Security...
Smartphone scanning against health insurance fraud
The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) plans to adopt a smartphone-based biometric fingerprint scanning system in health facilities.
Philippine newspaper Manila Bulletin reports that the...
Facial recognition to prevent underage gambling
Tabcorp recently completed a trial facial analysis for age estimation to identify when an individual under 18 years old enters a betting facility.
The Sydney...
Upgraded Alaska Driver’s License, ID Card Coming This Fall
The Alaska Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) recently announced that it will begin issuing upgraded driver’s license and ID cards starting in late Fall...
EES and ETIAS: the EU’s New Border Management Systems [UPDATE]
As we have previously reported, the European Union has long been planning to introduce two separate but integrated border management systems. Together, the systems...
Advanced Generative AI: General Adversarial Network
We kicked off this new AI-focused series by Cyber expert Ravi Das with an article about the Variational Autoencoder (VAE). In this second article,...
Rwanda’s New 2,000 RWF and 5,000 RWF Banknotes
The National Bank of Rwanda (BNR) has put into circulation redesigned versions of two of its banknote denominations: the 2,000 Rwanda franc (RWF) and...
Advanced Generative AI: The Variational Autoencoder
In this series of articles, author Ravi Das examines some of the more advanced topics that support Generative AI. In this first article, he...