Hackers Make a Fake Hand to Beat Vein Authentication (vice.com)
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.
From a report: 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. "It makes you feel uneasy that the process is praised as a high-security system and then you modify a camera, take some cheap materials and hack it," Jan Krissler, who goes by the handle starbug, and who researched the vein authentication system along with Julian Albrecht, told Motherboard over email in German. Vein authentication works with systems that compare a user's placement of veins under their skin compared to a copy on record. According to a recent report from German news wire DPA, the BND, Germany's signals intelligence agency, uses vein authentication in its new headquarter building in Berlin.
One attraction of a vein based system over, say, a more traditional fingerprint system is that it may be typically harder for an attacker to learn how a user's veins are positioned under their skin, rather than lifting a fingerprint from a held object or high quality photograph, for example. But with that said, Krissler and Albrecht first took photos of their vein patterns. They used a converted SLR camera with the infrared filter removed; this allowed them to see the pattern of the veins under the skin.
One attraction of a vein based system over, say, a more traditional fingerprint system is that it may be typically harder for an attacker to learn how a user's veins are positioned under their skin, rather than lifting a fingerprint from a held object or high quality photograph, for example. But with that said, Krissler and Albrecht first took photos of their vein patterns. They used a converted SLR camera with the infrared filter removed; this allowed them to see the pattern of the veins under the skin.
If I blow a vein out shooting dope I'll still be able to login...good news!
it is usually not very hard to copy.
A former German hand model turned secret agent will find it hard to get a clearance into the office.
Which idiot decided to use an identification as an authorization. Someone deserves to be beaten to pulp for being so stupid. Identification is not authorization, especially when it cannot determine intent. More specifically whether the person being identified is actively seeking service pr is being presented under duress and external force
"I don't have small hands, believe me! CNN sewed fake small hands on me while I was banging Sto...sleeping. Totally rigged limbs from low-ratings fake-news. My real hands, which are Yuuuge by the way, just like my down-there equipment, are building a big beautiful wall at the once-leaky border! No more bad hombres with rapey hands. You don't know about it because fake news won't show my wall, nor my bigly hands. So sad."
was all in vain.
* laughs manically for 25 seconds *
I'm sure at the time this seemed like something that would be damn near impossible to spoof, and I can see where the idea was so compelling that it made it all the way into implementation and deployment.
When deployed it was essentially un-spoofable because it was a new kind of "lock"; no one had made a "key" for it because this kind of lock never existed before.
But as soon as the lock (in the form of a vein scanner) appeared, the "getting defeated" part was sure to follow.
I think the surprising part was that it was defeated fairly quickly...I'm sure the people using this thing expected it to be the end-all-be-all of security for the next decade or so.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Identification, Authentication, and Authorization are all VERY different things.
Identification = Information about who you are
Authentication = verifying that ID information being provided is correct through a predefined/established process
Authorization = gaining permissions or actual access AFTER authentication has checked out.
bio-metrics foolishly rolls all 3 of those things into ONE and that is just bad security practice and it's not going to likely change. The fact that this is still being pursued and developed in this way is tacit proof that real security is not desired or required. Security Theater once again... wins the day!
The utter stupidity of the idiots who still think biometrics are a good idea in the face of all the evidence to the contrary simply doesn't count. Because tt was hackers, that hacked, with hacks! You really can't begin to defend against hackers, hacking, with hacks. Because they're hackers, and they do hacking, with hacks! Everyone knows this!
Well, at least msmash cherry-picks the "news" to look like that.
If I made a fake hand, I'd use it to beat something else.
Some eggs, for instance.
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
Putin's l33t h@X0rs are to blame for everything. LOL
This is just like the key locks everyone uses on their doors. Key locks are easily picked, but it is the cheapest thing we have, so we keep using them. Veins can be copied, but not that easily, so the system is still the best there is.
This is not anything fantastic. It is no great feat to make a fake "hand" to fool a deep-vein-palm-scanner. It changes nothing.
Fingerprints- you leave them everywhere.
DNA- you leave it everywhere.
Face- you show it everywhere.
Iris- visible when look at any device.
Hand/finger shape- not live, visible in any photo.
The whole point of deep vein scan is that what is being scanned is never left anywhere (latent) and not casually visible or obtainable. The veins are beneath the skin in the palm, in an area rarely exposed "outward" and can be seen only in infrared at very close range. When you "enroll", you know you are doing so and typically have to be an active participant. Combined with a password, something you "know", not "are", it is perhaps the most secure in-use thing out there while also being the most private, and actually very cheap to implement, and still fast enough for real-time use (those last qualifications throwing out things like retina, which is typically expensive, complex, and slow).
Meanwhile, fingerprint and faceID systems continue to erode privacy and diminish actual security. DNA, when it eventually comes, well.... go watch the old film GATTACA.
And that isn't going to change no matter how much rah-rah-rah (aka BS) is said about how "secure" it is or how "impossible to duplicate" is claimed.
Biometrics is turning into the ligne Maginot of the IT world, a fixed defense that someone, somewhere will always find a way around.
Now THAT'S one scary handjob
Always has been. Its so easy to bypass.
in places that matter a human guard sits behind glass and knows all the staff allowed into an area.
Biometric authentication gets you part way in.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
As usual for high tech, sex applications lead the way with fake body parts with accurate veining.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
Modern finger and vein scanners require active blood flow. Model is useless.
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