More than a third of smartphone facial biometric systems defeated with photo
Printed photos of a smartphone user were sufficient to unlock 42 out of 110 devices (38 percent) with facial recognition,…
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Black Hat presentation on spoofing Face ID cancelled over incomplete research
A presentation on defeating Apple’s Face ID biometrics scheduled for Black Hat Asia in March has been cancelled after the…
Researchers spoof biometric palm vein recognition system with inexpensive fake
Security researchers at Chaos Communication Congress in Leipzig, Germany have demonstrated a successful spoof attack on a hand-vein biometric reader…
Android devices facial recognition fooled by 3D-printed head, but not Face ID
A 3D-printed head fooled the facial recognition systems of four smartphones running Android, but failed to unlock an iPhone with…
Deep fake technology outpacing security countermeasures
In July, Sen. Marco Rubio appeared to be a lone cry in the dark when he declared in remarks he…
Researchers develop neural network training method to generate effective fingerprint fakes
A team of American academic researchers has developed a neural network to generate artificial fingerprints which can produce false matches…
iBeta adds biometric presentation attack detection testing
iBeta Quality Assurance announced the expansion of its biometric security testing capabilities by adding biometric presentation attack detection (PAD) per…
Researchers develop LED projection attack causing false positives with facial recognition
Infrared light projection can be used not only to obscure the identity of an individual from facial recognition systems, but…
Researchers design inconspicuous eyeglasses that trick facial recognition systems
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed a method of creating…
Google researchers create universal adversarial image patches to defeat AI object recognition
A team of Google researchers has developed a way to defeat AI-based image recognition systems with adversarial images that can…
