Fingerprint Validity Driver and Synaptics Fingerprint Driver Information Disclosure

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-4281 Potential Impact: Disclosure of biometric data Severity: Low Summary Description: A vulnerability has been identified in two drivers associated with biometric fingerprint scanners used on some Lenovo systems that could allow an attacker with local administrative...

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FBI Wants Biometric Database Exempt From Privacy Rules

Civil liberties and privacy groups are petitioning the U.S. government for more time to fight the FBI’s request to exempt itself from lawsuits related to its warehouse of an estimated 100 million biometric records if it’s found in violation of the federal Privacy Act of 1974. At issue is the...

Google Aims to Kill Passwords with Project Abacus

Google wants to kill passwords. And the weapon it wants to use is called Project Abacus, which Google said will become available on Android devices by the end of 2016. The way Project Abacus works is that instead of relying on passwords or two-factor authentication to open your Android phone, you...

Thousand electronic safe actually so that you is open a-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! With the electronic safe of the popularity, now there are more and more people began to pay attention to the electronic safe security recently security researchers exposed a crack electronic safe method, the following will take a look at it. Cheap attack high-return A safety Deposit box there a...

5.6 Million Federal Employees' Fingerprints Stolen in OPM Hack

The OPM Data Breach Office of Personnel Management is getting even worse than we thought. We already know more than 21 Million current and former federal employees had their personal and highly sensitive private information hijacked in a massive data breach that affected Defense Department's OPM...

Contactless Fingerprint Scanner That Can Capture Your Prints from Meters Away

Until today, there existed such Fingerprint Biometric Readers that required your touch to authenticate yourself as an authorized person. However, the latest research shows that the future of fingerprint scanners lies in a "no-touch" activity by an individual for gaining access. Recently, NIST...

New Chrome Extension Helps Combat Keyboard Biometrics

Two security researchers released a new Chrome extension this week that thwarts attempts to profile users based on a biometric. Researchers Per Thorsheim and Paul Moore collaborated on KeyboardPrivacy, an add-on that injects random delays between presses on a keyboard, Moore said. Those delays, t...

Let's Take a Selfie to Shop Online With MasterCard

Difficulty in remembering complicated Passwords? Forget Passwords and Fingerprints now – and get ready to authenticate your online purchases with your SELFIES. MasterCard is experimenting a new app that would let you make online purchases by taking a selfie rather than typing a password, moving a...

Samsung Galaxy S5 latest vulnerabilities: hackers can steal the user's fingerprint data-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Fireeye（FireEye security researchers at the Samsung Galaxy S5 has discovered a new vulnerability. Although the Galaxy phone the fingerprint is encrypted, but hackers can still clone the phone of the user's fingerprint data, thus reducing the fingerprint image, posing as the victims identity...

BodyPrint Technology Turns Smartphones into Biometric Scanners

Yahoo! don’t want you to every time type a PIN or swipe your phone or scan your thumbprint in order to unlock your smartphone. Instead, it only wants you to place your smartphone device on your ear in order to do that. A new concept from Yahoo’s Research Labs is out that doesn’t focus on old...

PayPal Wants To Integrate Password with Human Body

You would have been holding a number of online accounts for different services, but how many of you hold a different and unique password for every single account? Probably a very few of you. The majority of people have one or two passwords that are quite simple and easy to remember and comfortabl...

Android 'Trusted Voice': My Voice Is My Password

Today device unlocking has become far more secure over the years, from PIN number unlock to Pattern unlock and biometric unlocks including fingerprinting and facial recognition. But... ...What If Your Android Device Can Identify Your Voice before authenticating any access? This exactly what Googl...

Hacker Finds a Simple Way to Fool IRIS Biometric Security Systems

Biometric security systems that involve person's unique identification ID, such as Retinal, IRIS, Fingerprint or DNA, are still evolving to change our lives for the better even though the biometric scanning technology still has many concerns such as information privacy, and physical privacy. In...

Hacker Clones German Defense Minister's Fingerprint Using Just her Photos

Hackers have already bypassed Apple's fingerprint scanner using fake fingerprints, and now they have found a way to reproduce your fingerprints by using just a couple of photos of your fingers. Special Fingerprint sensors have already been used by Apple and Samsung in their smartphones for...

ZKSoftware Biometric Attendence Managnmnet Hardware[MIPS] 2 - Improper Authentication

No description provided by source. Exploit Title: ZKSoftware Biometric Attendence managnmnet HardwareMIPS Improper Authentication. Date: 20-3-2010 Author: FB1H2S Software Link: http://www.esslindia.com/install/eTimeTrack.zip Version: V2 Tested on: category: Remote Code : Advisory ZKSoftware...

Samsung Plans to add Eye Scanner to its Upcoming Smartphones

After introducing the Fingerprint scanner to its new release, Samsung next plans to add IRIS scanning technology to its future smartphones to better improve the security of smartphones and for being more innovative too. According to a report released by The Wall Street Journal, Samsung senior Vic...

Samsung Eyeing Iris Recognition for New Phones

Samsung announced this week that in order to bolster security, it plans to incorporate biometric sensors such as eye scanners into more of its products – even its low-end devices – in the near future. The move would bring an added layer of security to its devices and could wind up tying into in t...

Like Apple's TouchID, Galaxy S5 Vulnerable to Fingerprint Hack

Researchers published a video this week demonstrating how Samsung’s latest entry in the smartphone arena, the Galaxy S5, is vulnerable to a hack that involves lifting and copying fingerprints to trick the phone’s biometric sensor. Much like the Apple iPhone 5S, the smartphone, which first hit the...

Confirmed: Samsung Galaxy S5 has a Fingerprint Scanner

After the huge success of Samsung galaxy S3, Samsung Galaxy S4 and Samsung Tablets, the world’s most successful Android manufacturer is going to reveal its brand new Smartphone Samsung Galaxy S5 next week at Mobile World. Early in 2014, rumors suggested that Samsung Galaxy S5 will have Fingerprin...