Concern over deepfakes, social media attitudes grows ahead of US elections
As the 2020 US presidential election inches closer, new efforts are underway to fight what’s expected to be an increase…
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Reflectacles develops eyewear to bypass facial recognition systems
Chicago company Reflectacles believes it has the solution to concerns about the widespread deployment of facial biometrics. The company is…
Biometrics Institute offers biometric attack detection and liveness guidance
The Biometrics Institute has released a best practices document outlining presentation attack detection (PAD) and liveness in spoofing attacks. The…
Researchers spoof FaceID biometric liveness detection with video injection and tape
Researchers from Tencent Security’s Zuanwu Lab have developed successful spoof attacks on biometric liveness detection systems, ranging from placing tape…
OnePlus 7 Pro optical in-display fingerprint sensor easily spoofed, Apple selects acoustic sensing
The OnePlus 7 Pro smartphone’s optical in-display biometric fingerprint sensor can be hacked with some tinfoil and glue, Hot Hardware…
Samsung researchers develop method of creating deepfakes from minimal source data
Samsung has developed an artificial intelligence system for creating deepfake video from as little source data as one image, CNET…
Novel techniques that can ‘trick’ object detection systems sounds familiar alarm
Security engineers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) early this month announced they’d been able to develop “new adversarial techniques” that…
Hack of Samsung Galaxy S10 ultrasonic fingerprint sensor suggests no liveness detection
The ultrasonic biometric fingerprint scanner on a Samsung Galaxy S10 has been hacked with a 3D-printed copy of the phone…
Why your biometric data is different from your password
This is a guest post by Dr. Asem Othman, Veridium Team Lead, Biometric Science. Biometric authentication has been billed as…
Web video, photos, or siblings can spoof Samsung Galaxy S10 facial recognition
The facial recognition capabilities of Android smartphones are being criticized as insufficiently secure, after a parade of tech commentators, journalists,…
