“Your Smartphone’s Next Trick? Fighting Cybercrime.”

A new way in which cybercrime can be prevented has been discovered by a University at Buffalo-led led team of researchers. Each smartphone device is unique as a result of the obscure variations within each smartphone camera’s sensors, which are created in the manufacturing process. The uniqueness of each smartphone allows pictures taken by the device to be used in the authentication process of users. Fingerprint forgery attacks, man-in-the-middle attacks and replay attacks are tactics used by cybercriminals that could be deterred by the use of this technique. This article further discusses the concept of this technique and how it could be applied to cybersecurity, along with the research behind this advancement. 

University at Buffalo reports “Your Smartphone’s Next Trick? Fighting Cybercrime.”