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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