There’s a risk that someone might get hold of a device and unlock it by holding the screen to the face of its sleeping or unconscious owner.
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Big password hole in iOS 13 beta spotted by testers
A security clanger has been spotted in the current beta version of iOS 13 which allows anyone to access a user’s stored web and app passwords without having to authenticate.
Facial recognition on 42 Android phones beaten by photo test
How easy is it to bypass the average smartphone’s facial recognition security? In the case of Android, a lot easier than owners may think.
Vein authentication beaten by wax hand and photograph
A new presentation shows how vein authentication systems can be fooled using a fake wax hand model.
What Kanye West can teach us about passcodes
Pulling out an iPhone XS to show the assembled throng a picture of the hydrogen-powered aircraft that “our president should be flying in,” West casually unlocked it using the passcode ‘000000’.
Suspect forced to unlock iPhone with his face
The order so far hasn’t raised Fifth Amendment objections either, your face being something you are, rather than something you know.
Police use dead man’s fingers to try to unlock his iPhone
In the first known instance of this technique, police tried using a dead man’s fingerprints to get past the protection of Apple’s Touch ID.