authentication, biometrics, identification, Security technology
This article discusses new types of biometrics under development, including gait, scent, heartbeat, microbiome, and butt shape (no, really). Powered by WPeMatico
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biometrics, privacy, Security technology, surveillance
Excellent op-ed on the growing trend to tie humanitarian aid to surveillance. Despite the best intentions, the decision to deploy technology like biometrics is built on a number of unproven assumptions, such as, technology solutions can fix deeply embedded political problems. And that auditing for fraud requires entire populations to be tracked using their personal … Read More “Surveillance as a Condition for Humanitarian Aid” »
apple, biometrics, hacking, identification, Security technology
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 … Read More “Bypassing Apple FaceID’s Liveness Detection Feature” »
biometrics, facerecognition, falsenegatives, falsepositives, identification, medicine, Security technology
MIT Technology Review is reporting about an infrared laser device that can identify people by their unique cardiac signature at a distance: A new device, developed for the Pentagon after US Special Forces requested it, can identify people without seeing their face: instead it detects their unique cardiac signature with an infrared laser. While it … Read More “Cardiac Biometric” »
academicpapers, biometrics, cybersecurity, machinelearning, Security technology
Nice bit of adversarial machine learning. The image from this news article is most of what you need to know, but here’s the research paper. Powered by WPeMatico
biometrics, employment, privacy, Security technology, surveillance, tracking
Data & Society just published a report entitled “Workplace Monitoring & Surveillance“: This explainer highlights four broad trends in employee monitoring and surveillance technologies: Prediction and flagging tools that aim to predict characteristics or behaviors of employees or that are designed to identify or deter perceived rule-breaking or fraud. Touted as useful management tools, they … Read More “On Surveillance in the Workplace” »
authentication, biometrics, identification, Security technology
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 … Read More “Using a Fake Hand to Defeat Hand-Vein Biometrics” »
academicpapers, authentication, biometrics, fingerprints, machinelearning, Security technology
Researchers are able to create fake fingerprints that result in a 20% false-positive rate. The problem is that these sensors obtain only partial images of users’ fingerprints — at the points where they make contact with the scanner. The paper noted that since partial prints are not as distinctive as complete prints, the chances of … Read More “Using Machine Learning to Create Fake Fingerprints” »
authentication, biometrics, passwords, Security technology
Troy Hunt has a good essay about why passwords are here to stay, despite all their security problems: This is why passwords aren’t going anywhere in the foreseeable future and why [insert thing here] isn’t going to kill them. No amount of focusing on how bad passwords are or how many accounts have been breached … Read More “Troy Hunt on Passwords” »
biometrics, facerecognition, privacy, Security technology, surveillance
At least right now, facial recognition algorithms don’t work with Juggalo makeup. Powered by WPeMatico