German Cyber Agency Warns Against Fingerprint-Only Phone Unlocking
Germany’s federal cybersecurity agency has told people to stop relying on a fingerprint alone to unlock a phone or open a sensitive app, arguing that…
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Chinese Community Staff Used Printed Face Masks to Trick Facial-Recognition Attendance System
In eastern China’s Zhejiang province, employees at a neighborhood committee in Wenzhou have been caught using printed images of colleagues’ faces as masks to…
USC Researchers Proclaim 100% Accurate Anti-spoofing Biometric Tech
A team of researchers from the University of Southern California’s (USC) Information Sciences Institute (ISI) has announced some of the results from its recent…
BioCatch Warns About Threat of Deepfakes with 2020 Security Predictions
BioCatch Chief Cyber Officer Uri Rivner is looking to the future with a new blog post that offers a slew of cybersecurity predictions for 2020. Most notably,…
New US Bill Seeks to Develop Countermeasures for Deepfake Technology
The U.S. House of Representatives has officially passed a bill that seeks to curb the growing threat of deepfakes and other forms of manipulated media. The…
Black Hat Asia Face ID Spoof Talk Cancelled
A security expert who claimed to have developed a hacking method for Apple’s Face ID system has cancelled a scheduled talk at the Black Hat Asia conference, an…
Security Researchers Detail Palm Vein Spoofing Method
A pair of security researchers demonstrated a spoofing method for palm vein authentication at last month’s Chaos Communication Congress in Leipzig, Motherboard…
Iris Research Brings New Meaning to ‘Liveness Detection’
“They trained their deep learning system on a database of 574 near-infrared post-mortem images, as well as a database of 256 images of irises from live…