Researchers Beat Vein-Based Authentication Using Fake Hand
Ami Rojkes Dombe
| 03/01/2019
https://youtu.be/dyO7BFKfiaQ
Biometric authentication systems are widely used in the last years by many security organizations worldwide. Vein-based authentication involves scanning of the size, shape, and location of the users’ veins under their hand’s skin to verify the person.
To defeat the vein-based system, researchers obtained 2,500 pictures of a hand with a modified DSLR camera after removing its infrared filter. The pictures were used to create a wax hand with the exact same details of the veins of the person sculpted into it.
Researchers claim that the method is hard to replicate since the process is intensive and quite complicated. However, this seems to be a reliable and seemingly flawless verification system that can be exploited easily and cheaply.
[Source: HackRead]
https://youtu.be/dyO7BFKfiaQ
Biometric authentication systems are widely used in the last years by many security organizations worldwide. Vein-based authentication involves scanning of the size, shape, and location of the users’ veins under their hand’s skin to verify the person.
To defeat the vein-based system, researchers obtained 2,500 pictures of a hand with a modified DSLR camera after removing its infrared filter. The pictures were used to create a wax hand with the exact same details of the veins of the person sculpted into it.
Researchers claim that the method is hard to replicate since the process is intensive and quite complicated. However, this seems to be a reliable and seemingly flawless verification system that can be exploited easily and cheaply.
[Source: HackRead]
