Stories about: IRIS

Nearly seven years after 9/11, information-sharing problems that hobble law enforcement are just beginning to be solved.

Social networking powerhouse Facebook launches in Japan, Solitaire gets an interesting honour and Greenpeace finds hazardous chemicals in popular gaming consoles. All that news and more on this week's World Tech Update.

A new security system from Fujitsu aims to catch employee tailgating, where someone follows an authorized staff member into a secure area.

Juniper, IBM and Verizon will be among the big-name companies airing new products and services in the US this week at the RSA Conference, the annual security industry event that is expected to draw 17,000 attendees and 350 exhibitors.

Biometric e-passports will be issued to 23 million Taiwan citizens by the second half of 2008, under the new National Identity System (NIS) developed by Hewlett-Packard.

A British security researcher has demonstrated a "biologging" system for intercepting biometric authentication data, warning that attacks on biometric systems could become relatively straightforward if current practices don't change.

As the release of low-cost laptops based on Intel's upcoming Atom processor draws near, Microsoft is getting boxed into a corner. The software company plans to stop selling most Windows XP licenses after June 30, yet most of these low-cost laptops won't be powerful enough to run Vista when they arrive later this year.

Privacy agreements are being scrapped as fingerprints, iris scans and voiceprints are at risk of being hocked off through business acquisitions.

Mobile solutions from Microsoft and Blackberry have received the fastest Australian Communications Security (ACSI 33) accreditations in the Department of Defence's history.

From the start, Henry Malmgren was determined to get to the South Pole. After graduating from Texas Tech University in 1998 with a degree in MIS he applied for a job in the Antarctic every year before NSF contractor Raytheon finally hired him as a network engineer in 2001. Since then he has alternated between the Denver headquarters and the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, spending two summers and two winters there before finally working his way up to IT manager. Staying over is a commitment: Once the winter starts, there's no way to get in and out of the base until summer begins eight to nine months later. "I thought I would just do this for a single season, but somehow it always seemed too easy to keep coming back," he says.

An Australian researcher is developing technology that would let you use your eyes - or more specifically your iris - to unlock your PC, access secure buildings or open your front door.