Biometric security measures hacked
Devise a new security defense and sooner or later the hackers will find a way around it. Biometric methods like fingerprint readers are proving to be no exception. Ars Technica reports:
Biometric systems have been touted as the next big thing in computer security for the past several years, despite the fact that some of them—fingerprint scanners, for example—have proven to be incredibly easy to bypass, requiring little more, in some cases, than some scotch tape and a bit of patience. Facial-recognition scanners have been a hot commodity on laptops of late, but researchers scheduled to present at the ongoing Black Hat DC conference this week have demonstrated that current implementations have flaws of their own.
The researchers were able to bypass Lenovo’s Veriface III, Asus’ SmartLogon V1.0.0005, and Toshiba’s Face Recognition 2.0.2.32, even with each program set for maximum security. Information on exactly which programs were bypassed by which methods is presumably contained within the team’s full documentation, which is not available as of publication time.
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