{"id":132749,"date":"2021-12-20T12:42:16","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T20:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/hacking-fingerprints-is-actually-pretty-easy-and-cheap"},"modified":"2021-12-20T12:42:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T20:42:16","slug":"hacking-fingerprints-is-actually-pretty-easy-and-cheap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/hacking-fingerprints-is-actually-pretty-easy-and-cheap","title":{"rendered":"Hacking Fingerprints Is Actually Pretty Easy\u2014and Cheap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hacking-fingerprints-is-actually-pretty-easy-and-cheap2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>People in movies are often quick to resort to sawing off someone\u2019s hand to get past a fingerprint scanner. A <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kraken.com\/post\/11905\/your-fingerprint-can-be-hacked-for-5-heres-how\/\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> from the Kraken Security Labs Team shows that it would be much easier\u2014and less gruesome\u2014to recreate someone\u2019s fingerprint using a little bit of off-the-shelf wood glue.<\/p>\n<p>Kraken notes that biometric security has become increasingly common as smartphone, tablet, and laptop manufacturers have incorporated fingerprint scanners into their products. These scanners offer a convenient way to access those devices without entering a password.<\/p>\n<p>The report says a fingerprint scanner can be \u201chacked\u201d by using a picture of the target\u2019s fingerprint, creating a negative in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/reviews\/adobe-photoshop\">Photoshop<\/a>, printing the resulting image, and then putting some wood glue on top of the imitated fingerprint so it can be used to trick many commercial scanners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People in movies are often quick to resort to sawing off someone\u2019s hand to get past a fingerprint scanner. A report from the Kraken Security Labs Team shows that it would be much easier\u2014and less gruesome\u2014to recreate someone\u2019s fingerprint using a little bit of off-the-shelf wood glue. Kraken notes that biometric security has become increasingly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1512,1412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-mobile-phones","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}