https://community.isc2.org/t5/Industry-News/quot-Master-quot-fingerprints/m-p/16610#M1922 <P>Researchers have <A href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/15/fake-fingerprints-can-imitate-real-fingerprints-in-biometric-systems-research" target="_blank">generated artificial fingerprints</A> that function as "master keys" for fingerprint biometric systems.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I mean, this shouldn't happen, right?&nbsp; Biometrics are supposed to be something you are, and unique to you.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>OK, we all know that, in implementation, you can have some level of false positive results.&nbsp; But in a system that should have an error rate of only one in a thousand, they were able to fake one in five.&nbsp; (That's 200 in a thousand.)</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>As usual in these cases, the researchers were taking advantage of implementation errors, and those probably can be tightened up, but lots of fingerprint scanners won't be ...</P> Mon, 09 Oct 2023 09:01:37 GMT rslade 2023-10-09T09:01:37Z https://community.isc2.org/t5/Industry-News/quot-Master-quot-fingerprints/m-p/16610#M1922 <P>Researchers have <A href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/15/fake-fingerprints-can-imitate-real-fingerprints-in-biometric-systems-research" target="_blank">generated artificial fingerprints</A> that function as "master keys" for fingerprint biometric systems.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I mean, this shouldn't happen, right?&nbsp; Biometrics are supposed to be something you are, and unique to you.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>OK, we all know that, in implementation, you can have some level of false positive results.&nbsp; But in a system that should have an error rate of only one in a thousand, they were able to fake one in five.&nbsp; (That's 200 in a thousand.)</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>As usual in these cases, the researchers were taking advantage of implementation errors, and those probably can be tightened up, but lots of fingerprint scanners won't be ...</P> Mon, 09 Oct 2023 09:01:37 GMT https://community.isc2.org/t5/Industry-News/quot-Master-quot-fingerprints/m-p/16610#M1922 rslade 2023-10-09T09:01:37Z https://community.isc2.org/t5/Industry-News/quot-Master-quot-fingerprints/m-p/16624#M1928 <P>The moral issue happens when it leaves the labs, and is used for the perpetration of crime - then people sit up and review such items.&nbsp; Anything is possible these days and once again - when these technologies are created, do they think through the implications and to whom uses them?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I very much doubt it.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Then it becomes another problem we have to go solve.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Regards</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Caute_cautim</P> Fri, 23 Nov 2018 23:42:14 GMT https://community.isc2.org/t5/Industry-News/quot-Master-quot-fingerprints/m-p/16624#M1928 Caute_cautim 2018-11-23T23:42:14Z