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2006/01/31

Dutch biometric passports broken

Face and fingerprints swiped in Dutch biometric passport crack.

The crack is attributed to Delft smartcard security specialist Riscure, which here explains that an attack can be executed from around 10 metres and the security broken, revealing date of birth, facial image and fingerprint, in around two hours. Riscure notes that that the speed of the crack is aided by the Dutch passport numbering scheme being sequential.

Category(s): Authentication Attacks; Two Factor Authentication

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