Windows 10’s face authentication defeated with a picture
Windows Hello, a new face scanning security feature in Windows 10, has been defeated with the use of a printed out picture. ZDNet reports that security researchers from German firm SYSS have defeated Windows Hello on Windows 10 machines running older versions of the operating system. Multiple versions of Windows 10 are affected, and a number of different hardware.
SYSS tested Microsoft’s own Surface Pro 4 device running last year’s Windows 10 Anniversary Update, and found it was vulnerable. Even Microsoft’s anti-spoofing feature of Windows Hello didn’t help protect systems running older versions of Windows 10. SYSS found that if the anti-spoofing feature is disabled on the Creators Update (released earlier this year) or Fall Creators...