TY - GEN
T1 - Resilience of fingerprint and iris readers against common denial of service attacks
AU - Trabelsi, Zouheir
AU - Al Hemairy, Mohamed
AU - Masud, Mohammad M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2014/10/3
Y1 - 2014/10/3
N2 - Biometrics readers are deployed in many public sites and are used for user identification and verification. Nowadays, most biometrics readers can be connected to local area networks (LANs), and consequently they are potential targets for network attacks. This paper investigates the resilience of several fingerprint and iris readers against common denial of service (DoS) attacks. This investigation has been conducted using a set of laboratory experiments and DoS attack generator tools. The experiments show clearly that the tested biometric readers are very vulnerable to common DoS attacks, and their recognition performances are significantly affected by the launched attacks. Finally, the paper lists some security consideration that should be taken into consideration when designing secure biometrics readers.
AB - Biometrics readers are deployed in many public sites and are used for user identification and verification. Nowadays, most biometrics readers can be connected to local area networks (LANs), and consequently they are potential targets for network attacks. This paper investigates the resilience of several fingerprint and iris readers against common denial of service (DoS) attacks. This investigation has been conducted using a set of laboratory experiments and DoS attack generator tools. The experiments show clearly that the tested biometric readers are very vulnerable to common DoS attacks, and their recognition performances are significantly affected by the launched attacks. Finally, the paper lists some security consideration that should be taken into consideration when designing secure biometrics readers.
KW - Biometrics readers
KW - Denial of Service attack (DoS)
KW - Fingerprint reader
KW - Iris reader
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U2 - 10.1109/WCCAIS.2014.6916542
DO - 10.1109/WCCAIS.2014.6916542
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84908680888
T3 - 2014 World Congress on Computer Applications and Information Systems, WCCAIS 2014
BT - 2014 World Congress on Computer Applications and Information Systems, WCCAIS 2014
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2014 World Congress on Computer Applications and Information Systems, WCCAIS 2014
Y2 - 17 January 2014 through 19 January 2014
ER -