Apple’s Face ID biometric security can be misled using a pair of glasses with tape attached to them, security researchers from Tencent have discovered.
ThreatPost reports that the method is able to fool Face ID into thinking someone’s eyes are open, meaning it could allow hackers to gain access to a locked iPhone while its owner is asleep.
The reality of the hack, however, means that it’s unlikely to be of much practical use in a real-world context.
A hacker would need to literally place a pair of glasses onto their target without them noticing, and then hold their phone up in front of them.
It would be much easier for someone to simply force a target to look at their device, like one FBI agent did last year.
Tencent’s discovery sheds an interesting light on how Apple’s latest biometric security process works, however.
The FBI has reportedly been unsuccessful this week in trying to crack the PIN on a phone belonging to the suspect in Sunday's mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio.
FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich said if the suspect used a six- or eight-digit passcode, it could take months or years to break, The Hill reported Thursday.
The shooting left nine people dead and 27 injured.
The suspected shooter was killed by police at the scene.
The FBI has been able to unlock one of the alleged shooter's phones, a Samsung device, a Senate Democratic source told CBS News Thursday.
However, the suspect, Connor Betts, of Bellbrook, Ohio, had multiple phones.
The phone was locked and they wanted to obtain additional information by breaking into the phone.
As the case progressed, eventually government realised that they did not need Apple's help after all, and that a third party was ready to do the hacking for them.
Try to unlock the disabled device using iTunes
There is a high chance that you must have previously synced your device with iTunes.
You can utilize a recent backup in order to restore your iPhone/iPad and reset the passcode.
Wait for some time before iTunes syncs your device and then make a backup.
Cybercriminals used ransomware to disable the technology systems at New York’s Monroe College, according to Inside Higher Ed.
They locked Monroe students, faculty and staff members out of the college’s Learning Management System, Blackboard and email system, and are now demanding about $2 million in Bitcoins.
Monroe officials are working with the FBI and local law enforcement officials to investigate the ransomware attack and resolve the incident.
Monroe officials have advised students to continue to attend classes and submit homework on paper and contact the college via their personal email accounts.
These are perpetuated by a small group of sophisticated criminals and are targeting the organizations by size and ability to pay.
They are evaluating the Pain Threshold.
Biometric technology is a system, which measures the statistical analytics of any individual, based on the physiological and behavioural characteristics.
Increasing demand for authentication and high security are the major factors driving growth of the global biometric vehicle access market
Privacy is the major concern regarding biometric solution resulting in the increasing demand for authentication.
Vehicle theft is one of the major problems faced by the consumers due to lack of security systems in the vehicles.
Therefore, increasing threat of vehicle stealing is resulting in increasing demand for biometric authentication solutions in vehicles, which is a safer security solution.
Therefore, the probabilities of fraudulence in the fingerprint recognition system is less than that in the conventional recognition, which is expected to significantly increase the use of finger print recognition systems in the biometric vehicles.
FBI Director Robert Mueller once said, “There are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked, and those that will be.” Every business, no matter its industry or scale, is a potential target and unless there is a strong security culture in place, odds are that a breach will occur, causing a loss of information, leakage of critical data or direct financial fraud.
A 2018 study by Ponemon and IBM estimated the global average cost of a data breach at over $3.86 million, a stunning 6.4 per cent increase since the last year.
HBO recently lost 1.5 terabytes of data, including TV show episodes, scripts, manager emails and some actors’ personal information.
Economic Impact: A recent Frost & Sullivan report estimated that a large enterprise in the APAC region, can potentially incur over 30 Million USD in cybersecurity breaches every year.
This not only affects their operational productivity but also hampers their innovation and research capabilities, setting back their growth by months.
This forced Sony Entertainment to shut down operations for an entire month before the situation could be managed.
