People are increasingly sharing their personal information online, thanks to the rapid expansion of internet usage. As a result, malicious actors have access to a vast amount of personal information and financial transactions. Phishing is a very successful type of cybercrime that allows malicious actors to fool people and obtain sensitive information. Phishing is a […]
Amusement park operating company Six Flags reached a settlement to pay $36 million USD as part of a class action lawsuit accusing the company of collecting fingerprint records from its visitors. The Illinois Supreme Court ruled that this practice violates the Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), in effect in this state. This legislation was passed […]
Fingerprints have long been considered one of the most reliable security measures, thanks to their biometric nature verified by science. But, this is largely changing with hackers catching up. Such was seen at the GeekPwn conference held in Shanghai recently where the X-Lab security team from a firm named Tencent gave a demonstration of how […]
FATT is a script for extracting network metadata and fingerprints such as JA3 and HASSH from packet capture files (pcap) or live network traffic. The main use-case is for monitoring honeypots, but you can also use it for other use cases such as network forensic analysis. fatt works on Linux, macOS and Windows. Note […]
Biometric records of more than one million people, in addition to other sensitive details, are exposed to any user’s reach in an unsecured database, web application security experts report. According to reports, the company responsible for this database works closely with British police officers, banking institutions and military contractors. Suprema, the company involved in the […]
A script for extracting network metadata and fingerprints such as JA3 and HASSH from packet capture files (pcap) or live network traffic. The main use-case is for monitoring honeypots, but you can also use it for other use cases such as network forensic analysis. fatt works on Linux, macOS and Windows. Note that fatt uses […]
Believe it or not but in the US, police are now using fingerprints of dead suspects to unlock iPhones. Contrary to popular belief that law enforcement agencies only recently started using dead person fingerprints for unlocking iPhones, Forbes has reported that this has been going on for years. In its latest report, Forbes confirmed that […]
If a mere speculation is to be believed, the biometric data of millions of Americans could be at the risk of being compromised by Russian hackers. They could “even compromise wider national security and law enforcement computer systems,” says a detailed BuzzFeed report citing some documents and two whistleblowers as the source. The fingerprints recognition software used […]
Canvas fingerprinting relies on websites meaning able to receive data from HTML canvas details calmly. In future, Firefox users will be required to give their approval before that wrenching can take place, just as users of the Tor Browser are. The community in behavior to Tor Browser is no chance. That privacy-first browser is really […]
Identical code ties Friday’s attacks to hacks on Sony Pictures and $1bn bank heist. A researcher has found digital fingerprints that tie the WCry ransomware worm that menaced the world on Friday to a prolific hacking operation that previously generated headlines by attacking Sony Pictures, the Bangladesh Central Bank, and South Korean banks. The link […]
DAVScan Credits: Graph-X Download Davscan DAVScan is a quick and lightweight webdav scanner designed to discover hidden files and folders on DAV enabled webservers. The scanner works by taking advantage of overly privileged/misconfigured WebDAV servers or servers vulnerable to various disclosure or authentication bypass vulnerabilities. The scanner attempts to fingerprint the target server and then […]
DAVScan is a quick and lightweight webdav scanner designed to discover hidden files and folders on DAV enabled webservers. The scanner works by taking advantage of overly privileged/misconfigured WebDAV servers or servers vulnerable to various disclosure or authentication bypass vulnerabilities. The scanner attempts to fingerprint the target server and then spider the server based on […]
Japan testing New Payment System to let Tourists use their Fingerprints instead of Currency A new payment system is being tested by the Japanese government that will let foreign tourists authenticate their identities and avail shopping and hospitality services anywhere in Japan through their fingerprints. The idea is to make shopping and attainment of services by […]
The data breach at the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is slowly shaping up to be one of the biggest hacks in the country’s history, the Department of Defense (DoD) revealing that, besides the personal information of over 21 million American government officials, the hackers might have gotten their hands on fingerprint records for […]
New Breakthrough suggests that Fingerprints will soon reveal to cops if suspects are High on cocaine. According to advancement in “drug test” from the University of Surrey, UK a new, noninvasive drug test for cocaine has been devised that precisely identifies if a person has consumed cocaine or not, just through their fingerprints. The test works […]
Ride-sharing taxi apps Uber, Lyft and Sidecar have been asked by US lawmakers to adopt fingerprint-based background checks for their drivers,
Sky News reports that the United States military is investing heavily in new identify verification techniques that could replace passwords and biometric solutions for security.
Samsung’s Galaxy S5 offers a cutting-edge component that will change m-commerce forever – a fingerprint-scanner which offers instant authentication with one finger-swipe and which works in stores as well as online.
A tiny new iris-scanner which plugs into smart devices and PCs could eradicate the need for passwords entirely – and it offers a far higher level of security than fingerprint scanners, with a ‘false positive’ chance of just 1 in 2.25 trillion.
Fingerprint identification systems could sweep through the world faster than most have predicted, according to Ericcsson, the world’s largest cellphone network maker – based on opinion polls of 100,000 smartphone users around the world.
One day, your smartphone might “recognise” you by the way you walk, the way your fingers tap on a touchscreen – or even simply where you go during the day. Habits such as your walk can be as distinctive as a fingerprint, researchers claim.