Beating facial recognition authentication software
CNET editor Dong Ngo published this article about defeating (with a photograph!) the Lenovo Veriface III authentication software on a Lenovo Y430 running Windows Vista. The Vietnamese Internetwork Security Center BKIS performed the demonstration with a specially treated photograph of Dong Ngo taken during a Skype video chat. BKIS showed that the same technique can be used to defeat the facial recognition software on two laptops from Asus and Toshiba, according to Dong Ngo.
According to BKIS, the photo does not have to be of high quality but DOES have to be processed in a very particular (and undisclosed) way to “enhance certain key points of the face and adjust contrast level to match the ‘expectation’ of the face recognition algorithm.”
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