Insight. Applied.
Security flaws in Apple’s Face ID are already being reported—masks being used to unlock phones and the inability to distinguish between close blood relatives.
I don’t think this has surprised anyone involved in IT security.
Last week a wife discovered her husband had been cheating on her after she unlocked his phone using his fingerprint as he slept.
Biometric authentication is convenient—but it’s bad security. I’ve written about this previously for Learning Tree International.
As part of National Cyber Security Awareness Month Learning Tree have re-purposed two of my security-related articles—one as an info-article and the other as an infographic.
The info-article is on the problems with biometric security and the infographic is a summary of ten Internet of Things (IoT) vulnerabilities.
The original biometric security and IoT vulnerabilities articles are available on the Learning Tree blog.
Microsoft has said that the recent wave of cyber attacks that has hit 150 countries should be treated by governments as a “wake-up” call.
Security experts have constantly warned intelligence agencies about the risks of weakening security to make it easier to undertake surveillance. As UK hospitals are plunged into chaos we can see the ramifications of ignoring these warnings.
This has been a textbook demonstration of why weakening infrastructure that we all rely on is a terrible idea. Let’s hope that companies who’ve resisted pressure to insert “back doors” in their systems feel emboldened to continue the fight.