Hackers Make a Fake Hand to Beat Vein Authentication

guest · Dec 27, 2018

Hackers Make a Fake Hand to Beat Vein Authentication
December 27, 2018
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/...ation-biometrics-chaos-communication-congress

Devices and security systems are increasingly using biometric authentication to let users in and keep hackers out, be that fingerprint sensors or perhaps the iPhone’s FaceID.
Another method is so-called ‘vein authentication,’ which, as the name implies, involves a computer scanning the shape, size, and position of a users’ veins under the skin of their hand.

But hackers have found a workaround for that, too. On Thursday at the annual Chaos Communication Congress hacking conference in Leipzig, Germany, security researchers described how they created a fake hand out of wax to fool a vein sensor.

Krissler and Albrecht only spent around a month working on this research. A well-funded and resourced adversary, perhaps a state that is trying to break into an area secured with vein authentication, could likely replicate this research on a larger and more efficient scale.
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brians08 · Jan 7, 2019

Just another example of the limitations of biometric authentication.
Until someone builds a scanning device that reads a passwords directly from your brain, passwords are the only way to go.

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