German hacker breaks into fingerprint scanners with photos



For quality pictures of human hands can restore an individual picture of the skin on the fingertips - and thus deceive fingerprint scanners. This was at a conference Chaos Communication Congress (CCC) in Hamburg, told German hacker Yang Krissler, known under the name Starbug. Last year Krissler hacked protection fingerprint Touch ID in the iPhone 5s.

At its presentation of the German told how he was able to reproduce the exact copy of the fingerprints of the German Minister of Defence of Germany Ursula von der Leyen using the most ordinary camera and open access applications VeriFinger. Fingerprinting officer he spent in front of publiki.Posle how he managed to get a photo of the thumb defense minister, high resolution pictures and a few fingers from different angles, Krissler able to reproduce the exact fingerprint Ursula von der Leyen. Hacker claims that forged fingerprints, it is possible to cheat the system bezopasnosti.Ranshe various hackers have already shown how to circumvent the protection of biometric iPhone, accurately machined surface glass or other object to which touched the victim. The copy is made by "developing" print special powder, and then photographing processing in a graphics editor for contrast enhancement and production of the pads on the gelling raspechatke.

Despite reaching Starbug, it does not put a biometric form of protection under threat, experts say. However, it points to its biggest drawback, which can be used not in the best order, and therefore the exploitation of biometric data should be supported by additional levels zaschity.V end of his speech Krissler joked that future policies are likely to appear in public only with gloves to photos of their fingers were not in the public domain.

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