Towards More Secure Biometric Readers for Effective Digital Forensic Investigation

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Source of Publication

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST

Publication Date

12-1-2011

Abstract

This paper investigates the effect of common network attacks on the performance, and security of several biometric readers. Experiments are conducted using Denial of Service attacks (DoSs) and the ARP cache poisoning attack. The experiments show that the tested biometric readers are vulnerable to DoS attacks, and their recognition performance is significantly affected after launching the attacks. However, the experiments show that the tested biometric readers are secure from the ARP cache poisoning attack. This work demonstrates that biometric readers are easy targets for malicious network users, lack basic security mechanisms, and are vulnerable to common attacks. The confidentiality, and integrity of the log files in the biometric readers, could be compromised with such attacks. It then becomes important to study these attacks in order to find flags that could aid in a network forensic investigation of a biometric device. © Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering 2011.

ISBN

9783642195129

ISSN

1867-8211

Publisher

Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Volume

53

First Page

65

Last Page

77

Disciplines

Computer Sciences

Keywords

Biometrics scanners, Denial of service attack (DoS), Fingerprint reader, Firewall, Forensic investigation, Intrusion detection/prevention systems (IDS/IPS), Iris reader

Scopus ID

84885884414

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

no

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