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Title: | I can think like you! Towards reaction spoofing attack on brainwave-based authentication | Authors: | Chiu, WY Meng, WZ Li, WJ |
Issue Date: | 2021 | Source: | Lecture notes in computer science (including subseries Lecture notes in artificial intelligence and lecture notes in bioinformatics), 2021, v. 12382 LNCS, p. 251-265 | Abstract: | In the coming period of Internet of Things (IoT), user authentication is one important and essential security mechanism to protect assets from unauthorized access. Textual passwords are the most widely adopted authentication method, but have well-known limitations in the aspects of both security and usability. As an alternative, biometric authentication has attracted much attention, which can verify users based on their biometric features. With the fast development of EEG (electro-encephalography) sensors in current headsets and personal devices, user authentication based on brainwaves becomes feasible. Due to its potential adoption, there is an increasing need to secure such emerging authentication method. In this work, we focus on a brainwave-based computer-screen unlock mechanism, which can validate users based on their brainwave signals when seeing different images. Then, we analyze the security of such brainwave-based scheme and identify a kind of reaction spoofing attack where an attacker can try to imitate the mental reaction (either familiar or unfamiliar) of a legitimate user. In the user study, we show the feasibility and viability of such attack. | Keywords: | EEG Biometric authentication Brainwave-based unlock Biometric security Reaction spoofing attack |
Publisher: | Springer | Journal: | Lecture notes in computer science (including subseries Lecture notes in artificial intelligence and lecture notes in bioinformatics) | ISSN: | 0302-9743 | EISSN: | 1611-3349 | DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-68851-6_18 | Description: | International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage (SpaCCS 2020), 18-20 December, 2021, Nanjing, China |
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