The wax hand that let hackers trick vein authentication security scanners

Two hackers managed to trick a vein scanning system just by using a simple wax hand. As the name suggests, vein authentication systems use a computer to scan and verify a user's veins by studying their shape, size and position underneath a hand. But it seems the system isn't totally foolproof, as security researchers Jan Krissler and Julian Albrecht revealed the sensors could be duped by creating a fake hand out of wax. Security researchers Jan Krissler and Julian Albrecht discovered a vein authentication system could be fooled. Vein authentication is a increasingly popular form of biometric security.