Apple is giving away up to $1 million for cybersecurity experts who will find the loopholes in the security of the iPhone.
As the Reuters news agency reports, this is a slightly unusual initiative for Apple, which so far had offered rewards only to selected researchers.
This time, instead, the possibility will be for to all researchers and will not only concern iPhone and cloud backups but also Mac software and other areas.
Also varies the list of rewards made available to those who will make the most interesting discoveries from the point of view of security: the 1 million dollars will be won only by those who will find a way to access the kernel of an iPhone remotely without the need to take any action on the user’s smartphone.
To this end, Apple will provide researchers with special iPhones to facilitate their search for bugs.
It is, as anticipated, the highest reward that Apple has ever offered on this front.
Security researchers have cracked Apple’s FaceID biometric system yet again.
But there’s an unusual caveat to this trick: to successfully unlock an iPhone, the attackers first need to make sure the victim is out cold.
The attack involves putting a pair of modified glasses on the victim’s face.
That, coupled with carefully placing a piece of tape over the glasses’ lenses, makes it possible to circumvent FaceID and log into a victim’s iPhone.
Of course, the exploit is fairly difficult to pull off considering the attackers would need to figure out how to put the glasses on a victim without waking them up.
The attack leverages a biometrics function called “liveness” detection, designed to tell apart “fake” versus “real” features on people.
Well this is the question people always ask because of some unlocking problem in iPhone X.
User has to place their face in front of the camera and rest device does to unlock.
You can simply set to unlock with a pass code.
Tap on “Passcode Options” and set a six digit or four digit numeric passcode.
Aside from having no Face ID capabilities, not much.
If you don’t use Face ID then you will lose access to a few nice Face ID features allows, including:
Got an iPhone from your mom? Want to take her Apple ID off of her old iPhone and log in your own? This is how you can reset it easily.
Paying by using your Face ID is amongst the best and fastest way to make transactions in your favorite brand shops and retail stores.
Many of the users still do not know how to use Face ID to make transactions in Apple Pay on their iPhone.
In this article, you will find some of the best step by step methods by which you can learn to use your Face ID in Apple Pay on your iPhone.
Here’s how to pay at Retail via Apple Pay by using your Face ID
Users in the majority make payments via Apple Pay in places like a retail store from where you pick your monthly or weekly groceries and other necessities.
To use your Apple Face ID in a retail store to make a payment, follow the steps listed below;
If the user has forgotten the iCloud password, it can be easily reset by following the password reset process.
In case, the user has no trusted iOS device, the password can still be recovered using Account recovery.
The Account recovery is most preferred when the Apple device is lost or stolen and the user wants to access the Apple account.
The whole process depends upon the info provided by the user for verification.How can an Apple ID Password be Reset on iPhone?All the Apple users need an Apple account for accessing the iTunes Store, App Store, iCloud, Apple Music and other apps on the Apple device.
To access these services, the user needs to have the correct credentials of an Apple account.
In case, the user has forgotten the password, it can be reset easily.
