Sunday, January 26 ,2020
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Building 9, lecture hall 2, room 2325
“Dictionary Attacks on Biometrics”
By Professor Nasir Memon, New York University Tandon School of Engineering.
Contrary to the prevailing belief, we show that user authentication based on biometrics is vulnerable to dictionary attacks. We show the problem is particularly significant for partial prints used in smartphones and increasingly adopted for authentication tasks ranging from unlocking the devices screen up to payment authorization. We also show that speaker verification systems are also vulnerable to dictionary attacks. We then discuss ways to mitigate such attacks.
Brief Biography
Nasir Memon is Vice Dean for Academics and Student Affairs and a Professor
of Computer Science and Engineering at the New York University Tandon
School of Engineering. He is an affiliate faculty at the Computer Science
department in NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and
department head of NYU Tandon Online. He introduced cyber security studies to
NYU Tandon in 1999, making it one of the first schools to implement the
program at the undergraduate level. He is a co-founder of NYU’s Center for
Cyber Security (CCS) at New York as well as NYU Abu Dhabi. He is the
founder of the OSIRIS Lab, CSAW, The Bridge to Tandon Program as well as the
Cyber Fellows program at NYU. He has received several best paper awards
and awards for excellence in teaching. He has been on the editorial boards
of several journals, and was the Editor-In-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on
Information Security and Forensics. He is an IEEE Fellow and an SPIE
Fellow for his contributions to image compression and media security and forensics.
His research interests include digital forensics, biometrics, data
compression, network security and security and human behavior.
For more information about the lecture, please email dean Elmootazbellah Elnozahy.