FACE RECOGNITION BROKEN IN LENOVO, ASUS, and TOSHIBA LAPTOPS

Today Vietnamese security research and Anti virus company BKIS announced a vulnerability in the proprietary facial recognition authentication systems included with most laptops. Le Nhat Minh, Nguyen Minh Duc, Bui Quang Minh, Le Minh Hung found that by using not so special printed photographs of the target users, certain facial systems simply recognized the photographs as the actual user allowing successful authentication.

One could infer that most systems are vulnerable to this vulnerability due to the two dimensional nature of these systems. For more information and video demo see the below link.

Video: http://security.bkis.vn/Proof-of-concept/Face_Recognition/FaceRecognitionBypassing_DemoVideo.wmv

Announcement: http://security.bkis.vn/?p=292