Biometric Flash Drives Hacked, with Ease

Biometric drives are becoming more and more common as the need to secure the data on the drives from theft and loss becomes more pressing. Typically we all tend to think that biometric flash drives are very secure and a god option for sensitive data. However, it seems that biometric flash drives aren’t nearly as secure as we might have thought, even when they use AES encryption. While I am not sure of the brands of flash drives this guy hacked, he was able to access all encrypted data on both sticks by fooling the security program into seeing each fingerprint scanned as valid. On the drive with encryption he was even able to get access to the encrypted partitions without loosing the data. Moral of the story, your data isn’t as safe as you would like to think.

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