Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Hacks Hack biometric computers

Vietnamese researchers have cracked facial recognition technology in Lenovo, Asus, and Toshiba laptops; demonstration planned for Black Hat DC next week.

The researchers were able to bypass the authentication system not only by using a photo of the authorized user, but also by creating multiple phony facial images. "The mechanisms used by those three vendors haven't met the security requirements needed by an authentication system, and they cannot wholly protect their users from being tampered," the researchers wrote in their paper on the hack.

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