Following the news that a professor at the Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division of the National Institute of Informatics has demonstrated how fingerprints can be stolen from a photo. Robert Capps, VP of Business Development at NuData Security commented below.
Robert Capps, VP of Business Development at NuData Security:
Robert explains, “Consumers bear additional risk in using physical biometrics online, as they become static identifiers that can never be changed, and in their digital form, can be stolen, traded, and potentially reused to impersonate the legitimate user. Once biometric data is stolen and resold on the Dark Web, the risk of inappropriate access to a user’s accounts and identity will persist for that person’s lifetime. As the most stringent of authentication verifications deploy physical biometrics, such as immigration and banking, physical biometric data will become very desirable to hackers. We can expect more creative attempts by hackers to capture this information. The benefit of passive behavioral biometrics is that the information used to uniquely identify a user is passively collected and dynamically analyzed, and has an extremely limited shelf life of usefulness – making theft and successful reuse of raw behavioral signals nearly impossible.”
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