{"id":3115,"date":"2014-07-22T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T10:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.m2sys.com\/blog\/?p=3115"},"modified":"2022-06-16T06:32:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T10:32:28","slug":"liveness-detection-fight-biometric-spoofing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.m2sys.com\/blog\/biometric-technology\/liveness-detection-fight-biometric-spoofing\/","title":{"rendered":"Liveness Detection to Fight Biometric Spoofing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following post was written by Shaon Shahnewaz, Senior Executive in our Business Development & Interactive Marketing Department<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Should we be wary of leaving our fingerprints behind? Circumventing biometric security access by spoofing the system – is turning from science-fiction to reality.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Intro<\/h2>\n

There have been times where we have seen in sci-fi movies that thieves are copying and spoofing biometric identification management systems to gain unauthorized access to valuable information. Extracting eyeballs, and lifting fingerprints to create rubber molds to successfully fool a biometric recognition hardware device in the movies that might look like a cool thing to do, but have you thought about the implications of it in real life? What if, for example, someone right now is trying to copy your biometric information and using it to spoof a biometric system to access your bank account<\/a><\/strong>?<\/p>\n

What is Spoofing?<\/h2>\n

Biometric spoofing is a method of fooling a biometric identification management system, where an artificial object (like a fingerprint mold made of silicon) is presented to the\u00a0biometric scanner<\/a><\/strong> that imitates the unique biological properties of a person which the system is designed to measure, so that the system will not be able to distinguish the artifact from the real biological target.<\/p>\n

Are Biometric Characteristics Private?<\/h2>\n

Biometric spoofing is a growing concern. We leave fingerprints everywhere in our day to day lives, so the chance of someone lifting them and copying them is real. Currently it’s only researchers that are doing spoofing and copying for testing purposes and it is not a mainstream activity–but it could be soon as more businesses and governments around the world adopt biometrics for identification management. Many people are trying to classify biometric physiological characteristics as secret, but they aren’t. Our faces and irises are visible to everyone and our voices can be recorded. Fingerprints and DNA are left everywhere we go and it’s been proved that these are real threats to be replicated for the purpose of spoofing biometric systems.<\/p>\n