Research Article
Towards More Secure Biometric Readers for Effective Digital Forensic Investigation
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-19513-6_6, author={Zouheir Trabelsi and Mohamed Al-Hemairy and Ibrahim Baggili and Saad Amin}, title={Towards More Secure Biometric Readers for Effective Digital Forensic Investigation}, proceedings={Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime. Second International ICST Conference, ICDF2C 2010, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, October 4-6, 2010, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={ICDF2C}, year={2012}, month={5}, keywords={Fingerprint reader Iris reader Biometrics scanners Denial of Service attack (DoS) forensic investigation Firewall Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS)}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-19513-6_6} }- Zouheir Trabelsi
Mohamed Al-Hemairy
Ibrahim Baggili
Saad Amin
Year: 2012
Towards More Secure Biometric Readers for Effective Digital Forensic Investigation
ICDF2C
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19513-6_6
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.