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nowisthetime@pod.automat.click
nowisthetime

https://www.activistpost.com/2024/05/bank-of-ireland-to-introduce-voice-biometrics-to-authentication-for-phone-interactions.html

By Bianca Gonzalez

Bank of #Ireland announced it will invest more than €34 million (roughly US$36 million) to upgrade its phone and CRM systems, including adding #voice #biometrics for authentication.

The use of voice biometrics will improve fraud protection and reduce waiting times for customers. This investment follows an announcement of €60 million (US$64 million) on ATMs and branch networks, and €50 million (US$54 million) on fraud protections.

“This is the largest single investment in enhanced systems and technology for our frontline colleagues in branches and contact centers that the Bank has ever made. We receive more than 11,000 calls on average each day and when customers call us they want speed, expertise and security,” says Susan Russell, CEO, Bank of Ireland Retail Ireland.

“This investment equips colleagues with the latest technology to provide better and faster resolution of calls, and colleagues will now have a ‘single view’ of the customer at the touch of a button providing them with instant access to all their information without having to talk to another part of the bank. This investment will make things faster and better for customers and for colleagues, it’s a win-win.”

Customers use biometrics in banking around the world
This follows a global trend of banks implementing biometrics to streamline services. As many as 75 percent of Brazilian banks use face biometrics to identify clients according to the first phase of a 2024 survey on banking technology by Deloitte Consultoria for the Brazilian Federation of Banks. Twenty-four banks participated, amounting to 81 percent of all banks in Brazil.

Indian commercial banks are considering using iris scans to verify transactions, particularly for senior citizens, as fingerprint biometrics may be less reliable.

In Australia, Waave is introducing the biometrically secured Waave Wallet and for its pay-by-bank product that was launched in early 2023. Customers can use their #fingerprint or #Face #ID for authentication before authorizing payments.See less

Bank of Ireland to introduce voice biometrics to authentication for phone interactions - Activist Post #MOTB

Bank of Ireland to introduce voice biometrics to authentication for phone interactions - Activist Post

This follows a global trend of banks implementing biometrics to streamline services.

danie10@squeet.me
Danie

Your fingerprints can be recreated from the sounds made when you swipe on a touchscreen — Chinese and US researchers show new side channel can reproduce fingerprints to enable attacks

Blue coloured image showing a fingerprint ona finger, with the word security overlaying it, and an icon of a pointing finger below it.
An interesting new attack on biometric security has been outlined by a group of researchers from China and the US. PrintListener: Uncovering the Vulnerability of Fingerprint Authentication via the Finger Friction Sound [PDF] proposes a side-channel attack on the sophisticated Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS). The attack leverages the sound characteristics of a user’s finger swiping on a touchscreen to extract fingerprint pattern features. Following tests, the researchers assert that they can successfully attack “up to 27.9% of partial fingerprints and 9.3% of complete fingerprints within five attempts at the highest security FAR [False Acceptance Rate] setting of 0.01%.” This is claimed to be the first work that leverages swiping sounds to infer fingerprint information.

Biometric fingerprint security is widespread and widely trusted. If things continue as they are, it is thought that the fingerprint authentication market will be worth nearly $100 billion by 2032.

Importantly, PrintListener went through extensive experiments “in real-world scenarios,” and, as mentioned in the intro, can facilitate successful partial fingerprint attacks in better than one in four cases, and complete fingerprint attacks in nearly one in ten cases. These results far exceed unaided MasterPrint fingerprint dictionary attacks.

I have to say, though, I’m struggling to understand how this can really work. It talks about fingerprint friction audio – does that mean the press of a fingerprint, as it sounds more like some form of swiping? The report states: “It only needs to record users’ fingertip friction sound and can be launched by leveraging a large number of social media platforms.”

But it seems though they are using swiping actions to reconstruct the fingerprint, as they state this also: “In this work, we propose a new side-channel attack on fingerprints, called PrintListener, which leverages users’ swiping actions on the screen to extract fingerprint features and synthesize a stronger MasterPrint sequence based on these features to conduct dictionary attacks on users’ fingerprints”.

There is a link to the original report, where it goes into some detail about how the acoustics are interpreted.

No authentication process is perfect, but fingerprints have been one of the more trusted options. But we are also learning that phone sensors such as cameras, microphones, light, vibration, etc can all be exploited in various ways. These are actually all very clever hacks. Not all can be exploited easily in the real world, but one hopes that OEMs are working to keep these exploits pinned down.

See https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/your-fingerprints-can-be-recreated-from-the-sounds-made-when-you-swipe-on-a-touchscreen-researchers-new-side-channel-attack-can-reproduce-partial-fingerprints-to-enable-attacks
#Blog, #biometrics, #technology, #vulnerabilities

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digit@sysad.org
Digit

i tend mention only 3 of these (or 4 with an unmentioned* one) when trying raise awareness in brief.

Top 15 (manufactured?) Crisis for the masses to accept the pushed "New Normal" aka 'Agenda2030':

  1. (Fake) "Pandemic Crisis" ... Covid19 IFR = 0,15% worldwide (not "3%")
  2. Fake Russia Gate "Crisis" (debunked so so many times).
  3. Fake January 6 "Insurrection Crisis"(FBI involvement!).
  4. "2021 Suez Canal Obstruction Crisis"
  5. "Cyber Attacks Crisis" prelude to (temporary) internet shutdowns decimating even more middle-class business? Then pushing for mandatory Bio-metric ID to access the internet?
  6. "Electric Power Shutdowns Crisis"
  7. "Climate Crisis"
  8. "Hyperinflation Crisis"
  9. "Food Shortage Crisis"
  10. "Critical Race Theory Crisis"
  11. China-USA Crisis (more info here).
  12. Possible Fake Alien Invasion Crisis
  13. Water Wars Crisis (mass droughts created through geoengineering aerosols injections of all kinds).
  14. Border Crisis & Mass Immigration in USA/Europe Crisis
  15. The Rise of (alleged) "Fake News" Crisis (leading to even more corporate & government pushed censorship directives & new unconstitutional EU-laws).
  16. New Advanced Potential Dangerous Asteroids "Warning System" (just couple fake "near miss" warnings could be enough to push even more draconian NWO Agenda 2030 measures).

* nuclear.

#crisis #crises #manufacturedscarcity #weaponsofmassdistraction #peatlharbor #falseflag #disastercapitalism #catastropheopportunism #fakepandemic #fakealieninvasion #intentionaleconomiccollapse #censorship #totalitarianism #biometrics #fakecyberattackcrisis #fakeclimatecrisis #weatherwarfare #5thgenerationwarfare #waronpeople #waronfreedom

but, hey, maybe they care.
#maybetheycare

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tpq1980@iviv.hu
T Q

Biometrics are a big cash-grab & control vector for corporations & governments in the Information Era. Acquisition normalisation begins with getting devices into children's environments in homes, schools & mass media. Mass media is a tool of social engineering normalisation.

The Internet is now a vector for control & social engineering as we see with Facebook/Meta, which is a CIA-backed organisation via Zuckerberg like Microsoft via Gates. AI is already deployed to collect & parse vast amounts of user data & build predictive sociological & psychological profiles.

#biometrics #control #corporations #government #informationera #normalisation #children #environment #home #school #massmedia #socialengineering #internet #facebook #meta #cia #zuckerberg #microsoft #billgates #ai #userdata #prediction #sociology #psychology #profiling

garryknight@diasp.org
Garry Knight

New biometrics laws urgently needed, review finds - BBC News

New laws governing biometric technologies are urgently needed, an independent legal review led by Matthew Ryder QC has found.
Biometric data includes faces, fingerprints, voices, DNA profiles, and other measurements related to the body.
Technologies using this data, such as live facial recognition, are increasingly common.
But the review found rules in England and Wales were fragmented, unclear and had not kept up with technology.

#technology #tech #security #privacy #biometrics #surveillance #DataProtection

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-61896187

New biometrics laws urgently needed, review finds

The Ryder Review finds existing laws are fragmented and have failed to keep up with technology.

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bryontaylor@sysad.org
bryontaylor

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Imagine if you could walk into your local Walmart and your favorite products were delivered to you before you even had to ask. Imagine the possibilities if every camera in your town was connected, and had facial recognition software that could identify you, and call up your preferences on screen before you even asked for it. Facial recognition use cases in retail are endless. Facial Recognition Use Cases in Retail

#biometrics #personalization #selfservice #retail #technology #iris #eyetracking #retailing #facialrecognition #facerecognition #facedetection #computervision

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