, SecurityFocus 2003-08-13
Two German hackers say they have developed a technique to defeat biometric fingerprint scanners used to authenticate electronic purchasing systems. Unlike an earlier fingerprint attack developed by the pair last year, this system creates latex fingertip patches designed to be used while under observation.
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Hackers Claim New Fingerprint Biometric Attack
2003-08-14
Michael (2 replies)
Michael (2 replies)
http://www.heise.de/ct/english/02/11/114/
about a series of independant tests conducted by a German technology magazine.
It was painfully obvious that many manufacturers had focussed solely on FRR and FAR, and hadn't even considered vulnerability to a malicious attacker. For example, several fingerprint scanners could be defeated by simply breathing on them, to active the latent print of the last user!!
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