Biometrics researchers race to stay one step ahead of hackers

It wasn’t the first time the Chaos Computer Club exposed vulnerabilities in fingerprints as passwords. But it was the first time since Apple Inc. released its increasingly popular pay-by-fingerprint Apple Pay system.

 

At the club’s annual conference late last month, CCC member Jan “Starbug” Krissler showed how to reconstruct convincing enough prints from surreptitiously taken photographs to dupe fingerprint scanners.

 

The club, known for cutting-edge research, promoted Mr. Krissler’s talk on their German-language site in a way that would strike fear into the heart of anyone working on – or promoting – fingerprint security: “Fingerprint biometrics [are] finally only a safety placebo.”

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