Time For a Change in Security Thinking, Experts Say

WASHINGTON–Security, like a lot of other things, tends to go in phases. A new attack technique is developed, vendors respond with a new defensive technology and then attackers find a way to defeat it. It has always been that way. And right now, things seem to be in one of those periodic down cycl...

Finally, iPhone's Fingerprint Scanner 'TouchID' hacked first by German Hackers

Apple has marketed TouchID both as a convenience and as a security feature. "Your fingerprint is one of the best passwords in the world," says an Apple promotional video. A European hacker group has announced a simple, replicable method for spoofing Apple's TouchID fingerprint authentication...

Finally, iPhone's Fingerprint Scanner 'TouchID' hacked first by German Hackers

Apple has marketed TouchID both as a convenience and as a security feature. “Your fingerprint is one of the best passwords in the world,” says an Apple promotional video. A European hacker group has announced a simple, replicable method for spoofing Apple’s TouchID fingerprint authentication...

Apple Puts Fingerprint reader in iPhone

If you haven’t heard, Apple unveiled two new iterations of the iPhone at one of the Cupertino company’s typically grandiose product events yesterday. As usual, there was plenty of hype to go around, but the biggest change as far as security is concerned is the addition of a fingerprint scanner on...

Watchwatch-like Heartbeat Monitor to Replace Passwords

The heart beating in our chests contains in its right atrium a bundle of nerve cells and synapses known as the cardiac pacemaker. The cardiac pacemaker emits electrical impulses that cause the human heart to beat. These electrical impulses and the heart rhythm they produce can be measured by an...

DARPA, FIDO Alliance Join Race to Replace Passwords

Nearly everyone agrees that passwords are the bane of Internet security. For years, industry thinkers have somewhat vaguely referenced the need for Internet fingerprints capable of reliably verifing identities online. Yet here we are, it’s 2013 and passwords remain the primary means of...

Fingerprint And Proximity Access Control Bypass

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 + Device: Fingerprint & Proximity Access Control + Model: ZEM560 and others + Kernel: 2.6.24 Treckle on an MIPS + Vulnerability: Auth Bypass + Impact: By using a direct URL attackers can bypass the fingerprint & proximity security and open the door...

Slideshow: Ten Weird Biometrics In Your Future

VIEW SLIDESHOW: Weird Science: 10 Forms of Biometric Authentication In the past twenty years, we’ve gone from using amber-tinted dumb terminals connected to refrigerator-sized mainframe computers to sleek tablet computers and smart phones tucked into our pockets. Despite those changes, one...

The Genetic Log-in

DNA has been in use as a biometric identifier for some time. But as the O.J. trial proved, DNA analysis takes time, costs a lot of money and requires a lab to process – often creating the opening for challenges as to the accuracy of the test results. That’s the reason that, despite its utility, D...

Outer Ear Authentication

The insides of our ears are a mysterious place for most of us. It turns out, however, that there’s more going on in there than we expected. In a study presented at the IEEE Fourth International Conference on Biometrics in September of 2010, researchers used a shape-finding algorithm to determine ...

The Nose Knows

Researchers at Bath University have unveiled a system where noses, not fingerprints or irises, could be scanned and used for biometric authentication. Using a system called PhotoFace, first developed at the University of the West of England Bristol and Imperial College London, individuals had...

Want lunch? Palm it over

Fed up with using swipe cards and PINs for their students’ lunch payments, a school board district in Clearwater, Fla. recently partnered with microelectronic company Fujitsu to use palm vein readers for nearly half of their 102,000 students. Pinellas County School Board District spent $120,000 t...

Smell You Later

In 2009, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security hatched a plan to use body-odor as a method of identifying individuals. The DHS wanted to establish odor based biometric signatures that could uniquely identify both friend and foe. It then might be able to determine if changes in odor could be us...

iGuard Biometric Access Control multiples security

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iGuard Biometric Access Control - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Title: ====== iGuard Biometric Access Control - Multiple Vulnerabilities Date: ===== 2011-11-08 References: =========== 2011/Q3-4 URL: http://vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=104 VL-ID: ===== 104 Introduction: ============= Each iGuard Biometric / Smart Card Security Appliance has a built-...

iGuard Biometric Access Control - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Document Title: =============== iGuard Biometric Access Control - Multiple Vulnerabilities References Source: ==================== 2011/Q3-4 Release Date: ============= 2011-11-08 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID: ==================================== 104 Product & Service Introduction:...

iGuard Biometric Access Control - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Document Title: =============== iGuard Biometric Access Control - Multiple Vulnerabilities References Source: ==================== 2011/Q3-4 Release Date: ============= 2011-11-08 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID: ==================================== 104 Product & Service Introduction:...

CEO: Facial Recognition Technology Doesn't Track People – People Track People!

Reports about the potential for biometric scanning to usher in a new age of super snooping have prompted a retort from the industry itself, as one CEO used an interview with InfoSecurity.com this week to throw cold water on research from Carnegie Mellon University and argue that people – not face...

Kaspersky Lab forecast for the IT threat landscape 2011 – 2020 !

Kaspersky Lab has released its forecast for the IT threat landscape for this decade 2011 – 2020. Kaspersky bases this forecast on an analysis of the main changes and issues in the sphere of IT security over the past decade, as well as emerging trends in the development of personal computers, mobi...

Windows Loses Hacker Star Status In Next Decade

The next decade will see Microsoft lose its grip as the most-used and most attacked platform, as a new generation of hackers and cybercriminals diversify, launching attacks on a growing population of mobile devices and computers that run operating systems other than Windows, according to Kaspersk...