Stealing your fancy new car shouldn’t be easy, but as a recently published video filmed in September reminds us, it all too often is. That’s because, it turns out, the very same wireless key fob designed to unlock and start your shiny vehicle c…
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Face ID has been defeated again, and this time it was ‘simple’
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Breaking into a locked iPhone X shouldn’t ever be described as simple, but according to a group of security researchers, that’s exactly where we find ourselves.
The same Vietnamese team that managed to trick Face ID with an elaborately constructed mask now says it has found a way to create a replicated face capable of unlocking Apple’s latest and greatest biometric using a series of surreptitiously snagged photographs.
Apple has copped to the fact that Face ID, for all its technical prowess, isn’t perfect. It can be tricked by twins. For most people, however, that security threat is a nonexistent one. But what about masks? The Cupertino-based company assured customers that it had designed the biometric-powered safeguard with that attack in mind — yet the researchers at Bkav are here to rain on that particular parade. Read more…
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View More Face ID has been defeated again, and this time it was ‘simple’Face ID has been defeated again, and this time it was ‘simple’
Breaking into a locked iPhone X shouldn’t ever be described as simple, but according to a group of security researchers, that’s exactly where we find ourselves.
The same Vietnamese team that managed to trick Face ID with an elaborately constructed mask now says it has found a way to create a replicated face capable of unlocking Apple’s latest and greatest biometric using a series of surreptitiously snagged photographs.
Apple has copped to the fact that Face ID, for all its technical prowess, isn’t perfect. It can be tricked by twins. For most people, however, that security threat is a nonexistent one. But what about masks? The Cupertino-based company assured customers that it had designed the biometric-powered safeguard with that attack in mind — yet the researchers at Bkav are here to rain on that particular parade. Read more…
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View More Face ID has been defeated again, and this time it was ‘simple’Alleged HBO hacker who leaked ‘Game Of Thrones’ scripts identified
HBO might not be falling, but the mask protecting the identify of a hacker going by the name of Mr. Smith appears to be.
Government officials released a complaint which purportedly identifies the individual behind the massive hack of the entert…
$31 million worth of Tether stolen in latest crypto heist
Crypto hackers are at it again.
According to Tether, a company that’s behind the cryptocurrency of the same name (known by the symbol USDT), someone recently stole nearly $31 million from its digital vault.
The announcement, together with…
Hackers fool the iPhone X’s Face ID using a cheesy-looking mask
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Equifax is making an app, because apparently screwing 143 million people wasn’t enough
As America’s corporate embodiment of negligence and greed, Equifax has gone to great lengths to solidify its place as one of the world’s most hated companies. But that’s all about to change, dear friends and neighbors, because the corporation that lo…
View More Equifax is making an app, because apparently screwing 143 million people wasn’t enoughMajor internet outage hits the U.S.
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No, it’s not just you.
Large swaths of the United States are currently experiencing internet connection problems with several major ISPs apparently affected. Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T all appear to be having issues, with Comcast blaming the outage on an “external network issue.”
This outage falls just after the one-year anniversary of a major DDOS attack on Dyn that crippled the internet for a day in October of 2016.
Looks like it’s impacting multiple major telecom providers, not just #Comcast, including #Verizon, #ATT, and #Spectrum pic.twitter.com/ApSAvvRunm
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4 hacks that totally embarrassed the US government
Cyberattacks are a fast-growing and increasingly dangerous threat to modern society, especially when they target the highly sensitive information stored within government databases. Four recent attacks have made the U.S. government seem, at best, unpr…
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