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12-22-2017, 11:53 PM
Cybersecurity researchers breach Windows 10 facial recognition with a photo
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Researchers at the German IT Security company SySS GmbH successfully fooled the Windows 10 (http://mashable.com/category/windows-10/) facial recognition system by using a printed photo of the user's face.
Their spoofing efforts were published (http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Dec/77) on the cybersecurity site Seclists on Dec. 18. The cybersecurity experts bypassed Windows Hello — which is Microsoft's password-free security software — on both a Dell and Microsoft laptop running different versions of Windows 10, which is cause for concern for anyone using this feature to log into their account.*
SEE ALSO: This nasty Android malware caused a phone to overload and bulge (http://mashable.com/2017/12/20/android-malware-caused-a-phone-to-warp/)
Deceiving Windows 10 didn't take too much effort. It just required "having access to a suitable photo of an authorized person" to "easily" bypass the system, wrote the experts. The photo required is the full image of someone's face — so if someone really wants to attempt to deceive the facial recognition system, the barriers aren't too great.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/22/windows-10-facial-recognition-fooled-by-security-researchers/)
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Researchers at the German IT Security company SySS GmbH successfully fooled the Windows 10 (http://mashable.com/category/windows-10/) facial recognition system by using a printed photo of the user's face.
Their spoofing efforts were published (http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Dec/77) on the cybersecurity site Seclists on Dec. 18. The cybersecurity experts bypassed Windows Hello — which is Microsoft's password-free security software — on both a Dell and Microsoft laptop running different versions of Windows 10, which is cause for concern for anyone using this feature to log into their account.*
SEE ALSO: This nasty Android malware caused a phone to overload and bulge (http://mashable.com/2017/12/20/android-malware-caused-a-phone-to-warp/)
Deceiving Windows 10 didn't take too much effort. It just required "having access to a suitable photo of an authorized person" to "easily" bypass the system, wrote the experts. The photo required is the full image of someone's face — so if someone really wants to attempt to deceive the facial recognition system, the barriers aren't too great.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/22/windows-10-facial-recognition-fooled-by-security-researchers/)
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