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Timo Teräs

Security researcher · @terastimo

6 items: 3 advisories · 1 project · 1 talk · 1 post

2024

advisory

Windows Hello bypass via sensor spoofing in the ELAN fingerprint sensor

high CVE-2024-0454 · ELAN

A physical attacker can impersonate the sensor with a spoofed USB device and assert that an authorized user has authenticated, bypassing Windows Hello with no valid fingerprint. Any enrolled user is …

✓ fixed Jesse D'Aguanno, Timo Teräs

2023

post

A Touch of Pwn - Part I

TL;DR Microsoft’s Offensive Research and Security Engineering (MORSE) asked us to evaluate the security of the top three fingerprint sensors embedded in laptops and used for Windows Hello fingerprint …

Jesse D'Aguanno, Timo Teräs