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fyi: Researchers Hack Biometric Faces
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (' =JeffH ')
Fri Feb 20 12:32:38 2009
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
cc: ' =JeffH ' <Jeff.Hodges@KingsMountain.com>
From: ' =JeffH ' <Jeff.Hodges@KingsMountain.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:04:58 -0800
apropos to the biometrics essay in the Jan 2009 crypto-gram:
Researchers Hack Biometric Faces
slashdot.org/palm/18/09/02/17/216216_1.shtml
from the face-off dept. posted by kdawson on 2009-02-18 01:35:00
yahoi sends in news from a week or so back: "Vietnamese researchers have
cracked the facial recognition technology [1] used for authentication in
Lenovo, Asus, and Toshiba laptops in lieu of the standard logon/password. The
researchers were able to easily bypass the biometric authentication system
built into the laptops by using photos of an authorized user, as well as by
presenting multiple phony facial images in brute-force attacks. One of the
researchers will demonstrate the hack at Black Hat DC this week. He says the
laptop makers should remove the facial biometrics feature from their products
because the vulnerability of this technology can't be fixed."
[1] http://www.darkreading.com/security/vulnerabilities/showArticle.jhtml;jsess
ionid=1TT4XOGIHD2DCQSNDLRSKHSCJUNN2JVN?articleID=213901113
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