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« on: February 12, 2009, 09:08:13 PM »

Facial authentication systems from Lenovo, Asus, and Toshiba have been defeated by researchers. Apparently a variety of methods were used, including presenting a picture of an authorized user to the system. Fun stuff! There will be a briefing on this next week at Blackhat DC.

http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-dc-09/bh-dc-09-speakers.html#Nguyen

http://www.darkreading.com/security/vulnerabilities/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=UZKD4O3AS4T0AQSNDLPSKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=213901113
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« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2009, 07:34:06 AM »

Hmm, I'm surprised that news is so recent. Wasn't there an article about that a while back? I thought I had read something similar a while ago about presenting a picture to facial recognition software... the post about it was probably here in forums.

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« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2009, 08:13:40 AM »

Now that's scary especially considering the fact that biometric authentication is considered to be one of the most secure methods.
I guess Vijay will give us more info. after he attends the Blackhat DC briefing.
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« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2009, 11:37:07 AM »

There was a thread a while back about the Mythbusters episode where they tested fingerprint readers, similar technology, similar attacks, sounds like similar failures.
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« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2009, 04:10:58 PM »

I laughed when I first heard of this. Classic!
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« Reply #5 on: February 24, 2009, 07:27:51 AM »

Here is the video =)

https://media.blackhat.com/bh-dc-09/video/Nguyen/moss-nguyen-interview.m4v
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« Reply #6 on: February 24, 2009, 03:26:16 PM »

Thanks J!
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