Fooling Fingerprint Scanners - Biometric Vulnerabilities of the Precise Biometrics 100 SC Scanner
Antti Stén, Antti Kaseva, Teemupekka Virtanen · 2003
This paper looks into the security of fingerprint scanners. To do this, an example device is chosen and some attempts to break its protection are made. We analyzed some vulnerability and then three different ways to exploit these safety risks are studied and tried out. The scope of the tests is limited to fingerprints, leaving hard-and software attacks aside. At the end there are some notes about defending against these attacks. With very simple tools we managed to fool a scanner a few times out of a hundred. With more sophisticated equipment the percentage is probably higher and the result shows that fingerprint scanner alone is not, without any other security measures, secure enough to protect valuable assets.