In a report released by Wired Magazine, security researchers have broken Apple’s Face ID a week after the release of their brand new flag ship iPhone device. Unfortunately, when the new iPhone X was released last week on 3 November, Hackers immediately went to work to attempt to break the security feature of face ID. It was known on Friday, 9 November that a security research firm named Bkav from Vietnam released a video demonstration of a simple technique of hacking into Apple’s brand new mobile device. The firm took pictures, and made 3-D printed facial features from cut-outs and pasted them to the 3-D facial forms. The 3-D printed facial features with the cut-out pictures was able to unlock the new iPhone X device using the Facial recognition security feature. The hack has not yet been confirmed publicly but yet it is scary to think that such a method is possible! But it's also a hacking proof-of-concept that, for now, should not alarm the average iPhone owner, since there is so much time and effort put into accessing someone's iPhone X by using face recognition ID that is required to recreate it. The security research firm Bkav also states that Apple’s Face ID security feature does not work well because the Face ID security feature can be fooled by a simply made 3-D mask with cutout pics of facial features, which in this case means it is not a very effective security measure. Therefore, until this security feature technology has been improved, it has been suggested by the Director of Cyber Operations at Redport IA, Inc. that new and existing iPhone owners create that secondary precaution of a secure code for multi-authentication and to keep your facial pics and iPhone X on close hold for security’s sake.
By Dr. Randall Sylvertooth
Source:
https://www.wired.com/story/hackers-say-broke-face-id-security/
http://www.bkav.com/d/top-news/-/view_content/content/103968/face-id-beaten-by-mask-not-an-effective-security-measure

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