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Fingerprints Can Be Recreated From the Sounds Made When Swiping On a Touchscreen
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Tom's Hardware: An interesting new attack on biometric security has been outlined by a group of researchers from China and the US. PrintListener: Uncovering the Vulnerability of Fingerprint Authentication via the Finger Friction Sound [PDF] proposes a side-ch...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Tom's Hardware: An interesting new attack on biometric security has been outlined by a group of researchers from China and the US. The attack leverages the sound characteristics of a user's finger swiping on a touchscreen to extract fingerprint pattern features. One answer is as follows: the PrintListener paper says that "finger-swiping friction sounds can be captured by attackers online with a high possibility."
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