Microsoft misses own protocol, laptop fingerprint biometrics defeated in test

Microsoft's Hello biometric authentication software has proven surprisingly fallible in a security test, requested by the software company, of three vendors' laptops.

The challenge involved Microsoft's Surface Pro Type Cover with an Elan fingerprint sensor, Lenovo's ThinkPad T14s with a Synaptics sensor and Dell's Inspiron 15 loaded with a Goodix. Each chip performs the biometric match in-sensor.

Blackwing Intelligence performed three months of testing that "resulted in three 100% reliable bypasses" of Hello authentication. Its researchers confessed surprise that …

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