Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Aalto University have found vulnerabilities in a recently proposed user-verification security system for computers.
This new security system, developed by Dartmouth College researchers, was created in response to a need for easy-to-use authentication systems.
“In our technologically based society, we need a password to do just about everything — from banking to communicating,” said Nitesh Saxena, Ph.D., the director of the Security and Privacy In Emerging computing and networking Systems (SPIES) lab and associate professor of computer and information sciences in UAB’s College of Arts and Sciences. “Because people often have trouble remembering all of their various passwords for different platforms, there is a lot of value in identifying simple, yet secure, ways to log in and log out of whatever it is we are doing.”
It is particularly crucial in multiuser organizations, such as
hospitals involving confidential patient information, to prevent one person from using someone else’s login session, even accidentally.
