Monday, 7 January 2019

Face Unlock Feature Is Useless in 4 out of 10 Phones

Face Unlock Feature Is Useless in 4 out of 10 Phones

After testing 110 smartphones from multiple vendors, the Dutch Consumentenbond not-for-profit organization concluded that the face unlock feature in 42 of them can be circumvented using a high-quality portrait photo of the owner. Therefore, 38% of all the devices they tested would allow malicious third parties to immediately unlock phones that only use facial recognition as a locking mechanism and to gain access to all the data contained within, from photos to sensitive banking and personal data.
Read more: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/face-unlock-feature-is-useless-in-4-out-of-10-phones/?source=Snapzu

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