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Chaos Computer Club claims to have “cracked” the iPhone 5s fingerprint sensor

2013-09-23/0 Comments/in Mobile Security/by fdesir

A posting from Naked Security about Iphone 5s fingerprint sensor: The biometrics team of Germany’s well-known Chaos Computer Club (CCC) claims it has“cracked” Apple’s Touch ID system. Touch ID is the fingerprint sensor and the associated software that provides a biometric lock for the brand new iPhone 5s. Fingerprint readers have been common add-ons to laptops for […]

3 Steps To Keep Down Security’s False-Positive Workload

2013-09-23/0 Comments/in Privacy, Security Practitioners/by fdesir

A posting from Dark reading on Steps To Keep Down Security’s False-Positive Workload: Security needs to be better automated, but while detecting attackers is great, all too often automation means that security teams are left with chasing down a list of security events that turn out not to be an attack but unexpected system, network, or […]

Chaos Computer Club claims to have “cracked” the iPhone 5s fingerprint sensor

2013-09-23/0 Comments/in Mobile Security/by fdesir

3 Steps To Keep Down Security’s False-Positive Workload

2013-09-23/0 Comments/in Privacy, Security Practitioners/by fdesir

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Chaos Computer Club claims to have “cracked” the iPhone 5s fingerprint sensor

2013-09-23/0 Comments/in Mobile Security/by fdesir

A posting from Naked Security about Iphone 5s fingerprint sensor:

The biometrics team of Germany’s well-known Chaos Computer Club (CCC) claims it has“cracked” Apple’s Touch ID system.

Touch ID is the fingerprint sensor and the associated software that provides a biometric lock for the brand new iPhone 5s.

Fingerprint readers have been common add-ons to laptops for many years, but never really caught on.

Here’s why.

Firstly, fingerprints aren’t secret.

All of us inadvertently leave good-quality prints on many surfaces, such as glass, metal and hard plastics.

Additionally (in many countries in the post-9/11 world) many of us deliberately, often unavoidably, have allowed the authorities, our employers and even businesses such as banks to take high-quality copies of our prints, and to keep them pretty much for ever.

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3 Steps To Keep Down Security’s False-Positive Workload

2013-09-23/0 Comments/in Privacy, Security Practitioners/by fdesir

A posting from Dark reading on Steps To Keep Down Security’s False-Positive Workload:

Security needs to be better automated, but while detecting attackers is great, all too often automation means that security teams are left with chasing down a list of security events that turn out not to be an attack but unexpected system, network, or user behavior.

These “false positives” are the bane of most machine-learning systems: valid e-mail messages blocked by anti-spam systems, unexploitable software defects flagged by software analysis systems, and normal application traffic identified as potentially malicious by an intrusion detection system. First-generation security information and event management (SIEM) systems, for example, would often deliver lists of potential “offenses” to security teams, leading to a lot of work in wild goose chases, says Jay Bretzmann, market segment manager for security intelligence at IBM Security Systems.

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