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#DYK Hacking of Iris Scanners are hackers new target ?
At the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Vegas, Javier Galbally, a researcher at the Universidad Autonoma of Madrid, showed how his team hacked an Iris Scanner.
#DYK Hacking of Iris Scanners are hackers new target ?
At the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Vegas, Javier Galbally, a researcher at the Universidad Autonoma of Madrid, showed how his team hacked an Iris Scanner.
Iris scanners take an image of the eye, stretch the iris out into a rectangle, and then create a template of 0s & 1s called an " #Iriscode."
In image form, it resembles a series of black and white pixels in a long, narrow rectangle. It looks nothing like an actual iris.
In image form, it resembles a series of black and white pixels in a long, narrow rectangle. It looks nothing like an actual iris.
By making an image out of the stored Iriscode, stretching it into a circle, and feeding it back into the system, Galbally's team was able to get into the system with an 87% success rate.
Iris scanner didn't even care that the background was completely white, with no eyelid surrounding the reconstructed image. In other words, the scanner didn't look to check that the image it was looking at was really a human eye. That's a huge vulnerability.
The growing popularity of biometric scanners have raised concerns over one's privacy. So, be more aware of the consequences you face in sharing your selfies in SM and using Apps like " #FaceApp", #beautyplus etc. which you give full access to you phone media.
