Researcher demonstrates how easy it is to defeat biometric security on major vendors' notebooks.
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February 20, 2009
By Sean Michael Kerner: More stories by this author:
They just need to replicate it.
No, the process doesn't involve cloning or harvesting organs. Instead, researcher Duc Nguyen demonstrated in a presentation here at the Black Hat security conference that all it takes is a photo to defeat biometric face-recognition technology found on notebooks from Asus, Lenovo and Toshiba.
Nguyen's findings come as enterprises and hardware vendors are seeking methods other than simple passwords to provide secure login information. Biometric locks are often seen as being more secure and more convenient. That's partly because their keys are thought to be difficult for a third party to acquire or fake, and because they avoid relying on passwords, which users often keep trivially simple to ensure they're not forgotten.But Nguyen's findings could call into question how secure facial recognition technology actually is in its current state.
"All the face recognition techniques on all three laptops can be broken with a photo," Nguyen said during his talk. "I still don't believe it."
Read more...http://www.internetnews.com/hardware/article.php/3804906/Facial+Recognition+Gets+a+Black+Eye+at+Black+Hat.htm
Well, it's still cool and fun to play with on your home Computer;) Here's a few links I found while searching...
eViacam was fun to play with for a few minutes. It doesn't do Logon, but it will make your mouse curser follow your Face. It will also follow your hand. It's hard to control though and the automatic clicking get a little wild if you stop the mouse in the wrong place. Still this Tech has allot of Posabailities!:)
- Open Source Face Recognition
- open source Face Recognition - Google Search
- Facial Recognition Systems < Biometrics in the Yahoo! Directory
- Face detection with PHP - Website and PHP performance on xarg
- Welcome - OpenCV Wiki
- Google Directory - Computers > Security > Biometrics > Face Recognition
- Free, Open Source Software Categories|OpenDEN
- Face detection - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Software
- Free, Open Source Face Recognition software|OpenDEN
- Face recognition projects at Source Forge
- Kolmogorov | Get Kolmogorov at SourceForge.net
- MACHINE PERCEPTION LABORATORY
- Software : MACHINE PERCEPTION LABORATORY
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