Resilience of fingerprint and iris readers against common denial of service attacks

Zouheir Trabelsi, Mohamed Al Hemairy, Mohammad M. Masud

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2014 World Congress on Computer Applications and Information Systems, WCCAIS 2014
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781479933518
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Oct 3 2014
Event2014 World Congress on Computer Applications and Information Systems, WCCAIS 2014 - Hammamet, Tunisia
Duration: Jan 17 2014Jan 19 2014

Publication series

Name2014 World Congress on Computer Applications and Information Systems, WCCAIS 2014

Other

Other2014 World Congress on Computer Applications and Information Systems, WCCAIS 2014
Country/TerritoryTunisia
CityHammamet
Period1/17/141/19/14

Keywords

  • Biometrics readers
  • Denial of Service attack (DoS)
  • Fingerprint reader
  • Iris reader

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science Applications
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Information Systems

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