Researchers find smartphone fingerprint sensors potentially vulnerable to “MasterPrints”
Smartphone fingerprint sensors could be fooled up to 65 percent of the time by “MasterPrints” digitally composed from common fingerprint…
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Crossmatch wins $5.8M IARPA contract
Crossmatch has been awarded a $5.8 million contract to develop next-generation presentation attack detection (PAD) technologies for the Intelligence Advanced…
Biometrics in security: protecting sensitive PII and the sanctity of user identity
This is a guest post by David D. Dunlap, Co-Founder and Senior VP of Corporate Planning, StoneLock Our personal identity…
iBeta wraps up spoofing and liveness testing project
iBeta Quality Assurance, a full-service biometrics, software quality, security, and performance testing lab, recently completed a successful project for a…
IARPA launching two programs aimed at making fingerprints more reliable biometrics
Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), the intelligence community’s research arm, will soon launch two programs designed to detect fake…
CMU researchers develop glasses that dupe facial recognition
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have developed a special pair of eyeglass frames in which it can enable commercial-grade facial…
Facebook photos could be used to dupe facial recognition
In a presentation delivered at the Usenix security conference earlier this month, security and computer vision researchers from the University…
U.S. intelligence community seeks to detect biometric spoofing
In an effort to strengthen its proposed biometric screening system, known as Tactical High-Threat Operational Response (THOR), the Intelligence Advanced…
Researchers at MSU spoof a fingerprint protected smartphone using an inkjet printer
Michigan State (MSU) researchers, Anil Jain and Kai Cao, have discovered an inexpensive and quick method to unlock a mobile…
Vkansee demonstrates fingerprint spoofing with clay mold at MWC
Vkansee, a fingerprint sensor manufacturer from China, demonstrated at Mobile World Congress how a fake fingerprint can fool a smartphone’s…
