Tag Archives: Identification

How to defend against adblock detection/adblock subscription leaks?

Posted on by

Is there a best practice (or useful extension) for defending against adblock fingerprinting techniques? I’m not asking about how to bypass adblock detection as such, but rather how one might appear invisible (or spoof one’s i… Continue reading How to defend against adblock detection/adblock subscription leaks?→

Using a Fake Hand to Defeat Hand-Vein Biometrics

Posted on by

Nice work: One attraction of a vein based system over, say, a more traditional fingerprint system is that it may be typically harder for an attacker to learn how a user’s veins are positioned under their skin, rather than lifting a fingerprint from a held object or high quality photograph, for example. But with that said, Krissler and Albrecht first… Continue reading Using a Fake Hand to Defeat Hand-Vein Biometrics→

MD5 and SHA-1 Still Used in 2018

Posted on by

Last week, the Scientific Working Group on Digital Evidence published a draft document — "SWGDE Position on the Use of MD5 and SHA1 Hash Algorithms in Digital and Multimedia Forensics" — where it accepts the use of MD5 and SHA-1 in digital forensics applications: While SWGDE promotes the adoption of SHA2 and SHA3 by vendors and practitioners, the MD5 and… Continue reading MD5 and SHA-1 Still Used in 2018→

Understanding ANSI/AAMVA encoded data (pdf417 data matrix) on back of NYS ID card

Posted on by

Background

I am developing an Android application for work which runs on a Zebra TC51 bar code scanner, which I have been playing around with.. I scanned my NYS drivers license and inspected the output this morning (sanitized output is be… Continue reading Understanding ANSI/AAMVA encoded data (pdf417 data matrix) on back of NYS ID card→