If you like Google Chrome for iOS and macOS, it just got a few hefty improvements under the hood. Google has announced a few updates for its cross-platform browser across iOS and desktop. The iOS update focuses on giving users more opportunities to initiate searches, while the desktop update is more modest. The four search-specific […]
If you’re looking for some measure of vengeance against robocalls, it’s en route. Congress approved a bill on Thursday that raises the fine for robocalls up to $10,000 per call. The bill has been going the “Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence Act (TRACED)”. Per the Verge: Once TRACED is enacted, the Federal Communications […]
Mobile security could be about to get that much stronger. The The Mobile Authentication Taskforce, which consists of wireless carriers AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint, have released product details for what it calls a “next-generation mobile authentication platform.” The system could be the successor to the current SMS-based authentication method used today. While this method […]
In spite of Face ID being an impressive feature, yet another successful proof of concept/hack seems to have taken place. The security system, which has apparently been fooled by twins, children, and a mask has once again been bypassed by Vietnamese security company Bkav, which made headlines in mid-November after uploading a video featuring Face […]
It’s been noted that Apple’s the iPhone X’s Face ID feature can be fooled by an identical twin. Now it looks like a mask might do the trick as well. On Friday, Vietnamese security firm Bkav released a blog post and video showing that—by all appearances—they’d cracked Face ID with a composite mask of 3-D-printed […]