Collaborate Disseminate
From the biometrics of one million being exposed, to new Microsoft Bluekeep-like threats, Threatpost discusses the top news of the week. Continue reading News Wrap: DejaBlue Bugs and Biometrics Data Breaches
A biometrics system used to secure more than 1.5 million locations around the world – including banks, police forces, and defence companies in the United States, UK, India, Japan, and the UAE – has suffered a major data breach, exposing a h… Continue reading More than a million people have their biometric data exposed in massive security breach
Apple’s FaceID has a liveness detection feature, which prevents someone from unlocking a victim’s phone by putting it in front of his face while he’s sleeping. That feature has been hacked: Researchers on Wednesday during Black Hat USA 2019 demonstrated an attack that allowed them to bypass a victim’s FaceID and log into their phone simply by putting a pair… Continue reading Bypassing Apple FaceID’s Liveness Detection Feature
A publicly accessible database exposed the fingerprints and facial recognition information of millions, thrusting biometrics security into the spotlight once again. Continue reading Fingerprints of 1M Exposed in Public Biometrics Database
Suprema Security Breach: Protecting Apps from BioMetric Security Flaws
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Welcome to the world of biometric authentication, where your eyes, ears, and fingerprints are the access code to prove individual identity. Biometric … Continue reading Protecting from BioMetric Security Flaws
While working on a web-mapping project, vpnMentor researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar discovered a publicly accessible database containing fingerprint records of over 1 million users, facial recognition information, personal information and much more…. Continue reading Huge database found leaking biometric, personal info of millions
The court said facial recognition could well harm privacy rights, given its “detailed, encyclopedic, and effortlessly compiled” biometrics collection. Continue reading Facebook facial recognition: class action suit gets court’s go ahead
More and more, we’re seeing bike locks that open not with a key or combination, but with a fingerprint or Bluetooth signal. Almost all of those, however, are of the U-lock variety. What if you prefer the more compact form factor and wider rea… Continue reading ZiiLock brings biometric tech to folding locks
Researchers were able to bypass Apple’s FaceID using a pair of glasses with tape on the lenses. Continue reading Researchers Bypass Apple FaceID Using Biometrics ‘Achilles Heel’
Whether you realize it or not, our current era of mobile and cloud computing can be defined, both positively and negatively, by shared secrets. Shared secrets — passwords, authentication, and legacy multi-factor authentication — is the synchronous rela… Continue reading The rise of biometrics and passwordless security