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Coming Up: The Fingerprint-Grabbing Keylogger

Dan Goodin writes on The Register:

A British researcher has developed a biometric keylogger [.pdf] of sorts that can capture fingerprints required to unlock building doors or gain access to computer networks or other restricted systems.

For now, the Biologger is a proof-of-concept aimed at showing the insecurity of many biometric systems, according to Matthew Lewis, who demonstrated the tool at last month's Black Hat Amsterdam conference. But the researcher, who works for Information Risk Management, warns the attack could become commonplace if current practices don't change and could be used to log images of retinas, facial features and any other physical characteristics used by biometric systems.

posted by Fergie @ 4/02/2008 02:15:00 PM