A hacker says he has developed a way to copy fingerprints using a digital camera common. The hacker has demonstrated his theory with a digital copy of a fingerprint of the Federal Minister of the German defense.
Written by Simone Ziggiotto, the 31/12/14
A hacker says he has developed a way to copy fingerprints using a digital camera common.
Jan Krissler, a member of the oldest group of hackers in Europe, the Chaos Computer Club, made a demonstration of his theory to the Chaos Computer Conference that was held last Saturday. Has been shown to have a digital copy of a fingerprint of the German Federal Minister of Defence, Ursula von der Leyen, using software called VeriFinger, commercially available.
The hacker said a photographer took high resolution photos of the fingers von der Leyen, while he was at a presentation in October – the photographer was standing nine feet away from the minister. Krissler said he was not able to verify whether the fingerprints of von der Leyen is accurate, but said he was confident that it was a copy that could be reused. “I tried it with my finger in similar circumstances (same camera, same distance),” he said in a statement to CNET.com.
The presentation of Krissler calls into question the effectiveness of the fingerprint scanner digital as a safety measure. While this type of technology is on the market since 1990, has been brought up the system of fingerprint reader, which is called Touch ID, that Apple introduced in the iPhone 5S, which could be easily bamboozled. Even Samsung and HTC have taken inspiration from Apple adding a fingerprint reader in some of their smartphones. The player replaces the need to enter a code to unlock a device or, in the case of the system of mobile payments Apple Pay, complete a purchase.
While several other hackers have shown little efficacy of fingerprint readers Digital shortly after the launch of the system TouchID, this verification technique has always required physical access to fingerprint – until now.
Krissler was one of the first to show how to simulate a fingerprint with glue to deceive the TouchID iPhone 5S. “We hope this finally puts to rest the illusions of the people on fingerprint biometrics,” the spokesperson of the Chaos Computer Club, Frank Rieger, said in a statement.
Jan Krissler – demonstration
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