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alternative to two-factor authentication, the report points out: all forms make it diffi cult for attackers that seek to access resources by stealing someone else’s identity. ‘But in recent years, even biometric authentication has begun to unravel,’ warns the latest Cyber Security Predictions report from Forcepoint. ‘The reality is that facial recognition has serious vulnerabilities – and that is why we think hackers will steal the public’s faces [sic] in 2019. In fact, it has already happened, albeit only at the behest of researchers.’ However, Threat Intelligence solutions agency Gemini Advisory


told a report in Fortune.com that it has seen facial profi les stolen from India’s national biometrics database for sale on ‘dark web’ Internet sites. Gemini Advisory has yet to see databases of American faces for sale, but added, ‘It’s just a matter of time’. If such a thing were to occur, a stolen collection of customer faces from a hotel or retailer, for example, could help cyber criminals carry out diverse identity theft or forms of fraud. Further cyber security issues can be classed into three general areas. First, there is the concern that a facial recognition system could be remotely hacked and have bogus ID profi les added to its database of ‘approved faces’. If successful, this might enable a malicious intruder to gain


entrance to a building, then come and go as they please, undetected by the facial recognition system. Once in the building, the intruder would be well-placed to mount insider cyber attacks on internal systems using their own technology, or via compromised in situ endpoint


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devices already wired into the network. An additional


cyber security issue would be the possibility of a denial-of-service attack on a cloud-based facial recognition system that would leave an organisation unable to admit anyone into their premises.


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