On Surveillance in the Workplace

Data & Society just published a report entitled "Workplace Monitoring & Surveillance": This explainer highlights four broad trends in employee monitoring and surveillance technologies: Prediction and flagging tools that aim to predict characteristics or behaviors of employees or that are designed...

Judge: Law Enforcement Can't Force Suspects to Unlock iPhones with FaceID

A U.S. federal judge has ruled that law enforcement can’t force people to unlock their iPhones using the phone’s biometric capabilities – like FaceID or TouchID. The ruling comes from a Jan. 10 filing, for which police were seeking a search warrant as part of a cyber-extortion case. The victim wa...

Police Can't Force You To Unlock Your Phone Using Face or Fingerprint Scan

Can feds force you to unlock your iPhone or Android phone? ..."NO" A Northern California judge has ruled that federal authorities can't force you to unlock your smartphone using your fingerprints or other biometric features such as facial recognition—even with a warrant. The ruling came in the ca...

Police Can't Force You To Unlock Your Phone Using Face or Fingerprint Scan

Can feds force you to unlock your iPhone or Android phone? ..."NO" A Northern California judge has ruled that federal authorities can't force you to unlock your smartphone using your fingerprints or other biometric features such as facial recognition—even with a warrant. The ruling came in the ca...

Researchers exploit Vein-based authentication system using a wax hand

By Waqas Biometric authentication is currently a widely used option for maintaining the security of devices and systems. With the emergence of vein-based authentication, biometric verification has moved beyond facial recognition and fingerprints. Vein-based authentication involves scanning of the...

White House Facial Recognition Pilot Raises Privacy Alarms

Privacy advocates are up in arms after the Department of Homeland Security unveiled a facial recognition pilot program for surveilling public areas surrounding the White House. The program, outlined last week, will use biometrics to confirm the identity of various U.S. Secret Service USSS...

Using Machine Learning to Create Fake Fingerprints

Researchers are able to create fake fingerprints that result in a 20% false-positive rate. The problem is that these sensors obtain only partial images of users' fingerprints -- at the points where they make contact with the scanner. The paper noted that since partial prints are not as distinctiv...

New Boom in Facial Recognition Tech Prompts Privacy Alarms

Somewhat quietly over the past couple of years there has been a flurry of breakthroughs in biometric technology, led by some leapfrog advances in facial recognition systems. Now facial recognition appears to be on the verge of blossoming commercially, with security use-cases paving the way. Last...

Troy Hunt on Passwords

Troy Hunt has a good essay about why passwords are here to stay, despite all their security problems: This is why passwords aren't going anywhere in the foreseeable future and why insert thing here isn't going to kill them. No amount of focusing on how bad passwords are or how many accounts have...

Anviz AIM CrossChex Standard 4.3 - CSV Injection

Anviz AIM CrossChex Standard 4.3 - CSV Injection Exploit Title: Anviz AIM CrossChex Standard 4.3 - CSV Injection Author: Gjoko 'LiquidWorm' Krstic @zeroscience Date: 2018-11-01 Vendor: Anviz Biometric Technology Co., Ltd. Product web page: https://www.anviz.com Affected version: 4.3.6.0 Tested on...

Anviz AIM CrossChex Standard 4.3 Excel Macro Injection

Summary Access Control and Time Attendance Management System. Complying with our self-developed fingerprint, facial, iris, etc. devices, CrossChex Standard integrates intelligent management of time attendance and relevant functions of access control. It has been widely used in many office buildin...

Anviz AIM CrossChex Standard 4.3 Excel Macro Injection

Anviz AIM CrossChex Standard 4.3 Excel Macro Injection Vendor: Anviz Biometric Technology Co., Ltd. Product web page: https://www.anviz.com Affected version: 4.3.6.0 Summary: Access Control and Time Attendance Management System. Complying with our self-developed fingerprint, facial, iris, etc...

CVE-2018-15543

An issue was discovered in the org.telegram.messenger application 4.8.11 for Android. The FingerprintManager class for Biometric validation allows authentication bypass through the callback method from onAuthenticationFailed to onAuthenticationSucceeded with null, because the fingerprint API in...

CVE-2018-15543

An issue was discovered in the org.telegram.messenger application 4.8.11 for Android. The FingerprintManager class for Biometric validation allows authentication bypass through the callback method from onAuthenticationFailed to onAuthenticationSucceeded with null, because the fingerprint API in...

Authentication flaw

DISPUTED An issue was discovered in the org.telegram.messenger application 4.8.11 for Android. The FingerprintManager class for Biometric validation allows authentication bypass through the callback method from onAuthenticationFailed to onAuthenticationSucceeded with null, because the fingerprint...

CVE-2018-15543

The CVE-2018-15543 issue affects org.telegram.messenger for Android (version 4.8.11). The FingerprintManager biometric validation flow can bypass authentication via a callback sequence from onAuthenticationFailed to onAuthenticationSucceeded with null, due to how the fingerprint API interacts wit...

CVE-2018-15543

An issue was discovered in the org.telegram.messenger application 4.8.11 for Android. The FingerprintManager class for Biometric validation allows authentication bypass through the callback method from onAuthenticationFailed to onAuthenticationSucceeded with null, because the fingerprint API in...

PT-2018-13079 · Telegram · Org.Telegram.Messenger

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: org.telegram.messenger application version 4.8.11 Description: An issue in the FingerprintManager class for Biometric validation allows authentication bypass through the callback method from onAuthenticationFailed to onAuthenticationSucceeded...

CamuBot Malware Camouflaged as Bank Security App to Steal Credentials

By Waqas A new banking malware has been discovered that is targeting bank customers in Brazil. Dubbed as CamuBot, it is identified to be a unique malware because it is disguised as a necessary security module of the bank. The malware can also bypass the biometric authentication feature, which is ...

‘CamuBot’ Banking Malware Ups the Trojan Game with Biometric Bypass

Brazilian bank customers are being warned of malware dubbed CamuBot that hides in plain sight and presents itself as a required end-user security module provided by a bank. The malware goes so far as to include bank logos that look and feel as if they’re part of a real security application. In so...