Fingerprint Scanners Fooled By Play-Doh

12-12-05 · 1 comment

From Slashdot:

YubaNet is reporting that in recent tests by Stephanie C Schuckers, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Clarkston University, she has shown that, among other things, biometric security measures were fooled 90% of the time by simple attacks like Play-Doh molds. From the article: “Schuckers’ biometric research is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Office of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense. She is currently assessing spoofing vulnerability in fingerprint scanners and designing methods to correct for these as part of a $3.1 million interdisciplinary research project funded through the NSF.”

Oh no, the “play-doh attack” …

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Tim Marman December 14, 2005 at 13:38

That’s some expensive Play-Doh!

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