Fingerprint readers, like the TouchID on an iPhone, exist to make your device extra secure while keeping the process of unlocking it easy. Computer scientists at New York University and Michigan State are poised to turn that security benefit on its head. Like a master key that can open any lock, these researchers developed digital...
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Computer Scientists Are Developing a ‘Master’ Fingerprint That Could Unlock Your Phone
Fingerprint readers, like the TouchID on an iPhone, exist to make your device extra secure while keeping the process of unlocking it easy. Computer scientists at New York University and Michigan State are poised to turn that security benefit on its head. … “The sensors are small and they don’t capture the full fingerprint,” says...
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Researchers Develop Master Fingerprints That Can Break Into Smartphones
Researchers at New York University and Michigan State University have recently found that the fingerprint sensor on your phone is not as safe as you think. ‘The team has developed a set of fake fingerprints that are digital composites of common features found in many people’s fingerprints,’ reports Digital Trends. ‘Through computer simulations, they were...
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Your Smartphone Fingerprint Security System May Not Be as Safe as You Think
…A team of researchers from New York University Tandon School of Engineering and Michigan State University College of Engineering have found that partial similarities between prints are common enough to fool biometric security systems … leading them to be much more vulnerable than previously thought.
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Robots to the Rescue at the Kennedy Space Center
It’s no small task to build a fully autonomous robot capable of mining raw materials from the surface of Mars, but that’s exactly what a team of NYU Tandon School of Engineering students is attempting to do. For the sixth consecutive year, a Tandon team will be taking part in the NASA Robotic Mining Competition.
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That Fingerprint Sensor on Your Phone Is Not as Safe as You Think
New findings published Monday by researchers at New York University and Michigan State University suggest that smartphones can easily be fooled by fake fingerprints digitally composed of many common features found in human prints. In computer simulations, the researchers from the universities were able to develop a set of artificial “MasterPrints” that could match real...
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The President Test: Anderson Cooper 360
NYU Center for Cybersecurity Distinguished Senior Fellow Lisa O. Monaco discusses the national security and foreign policy challenges facing the White House on CNN.
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So You Think You Can Secure Your Mobile Phone With a Fingerprint?
NYU Tandon and Michigan State University Researchers Find That Similarities in Partial Fingerprints May be Sufficient to Trick Biometric Security Systems on Smartphones…Nasir Memon, a professor of computer science and engineering at NYU Tandon and the research team leader, explained that the MasterPrint concept bears some similarity to a hacker who attempts to crack a...
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Lisa Monaco and CNN’s Jim Sciutto on National Security in the Trump Administration
NYU Center for Cybersecurity Distinguished Senior Fellow Lisa O. Monaco discusses the future of national security in the Trump administration with CNN’s Jim Sciutto. As President Obama’s former top counterterrorism and homeland security advisor, Monaco coordinated policy development and crisis response to terrorist attacks, cyberincidents, and public health emergencies and natural disasters.
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Google Users Being Targeted With Google Doc Phishing Email
… Users are asked to click on a link to view a document, which provides the hackers access to the contents of their Google accounts, including email, contacts and online documents, according to security experts who reviewed the scheme. ‘This is a very serious situation for anybody who is infected because the victims have their...