3D Printed Head Fools Android Face Recognition, iPhone X 'Impenetrable'

collected by :Maya Tony

referring to The head was printed at Backface in Birmingham, U.K., where I was ushered into a dome-like studio containing 50 cameras. All Android phones tested were able to be opened by the fake 3d printed head.The Android phones tested included the LG G7 ThinQ, Samsung S9, Samsung Note 8 and OnePlus 6.It's been long known that many implementations of facial recognition amongst Android phones have been less safe than Apple's Face ID system. Apple's Face ID, however, alextremely includes IR depth mapping and attention awareness technology. The attention awareness alone may be enough to explain the inability for a static 3d printed head to open the iPhone X. that said, the iPhone X's Face ID has been fooled in the past by more sophisticated printed 3d heads.

Here's how to block robocalls on iPhone and Android

Manually: if you don't get a lot of unwanted calls, you can block calls one at a time. If you need to take this a step further, the Verizon app going to alextremely have a have aTry to block suspect calls and send them to voicemail. For Android devices, you open the Verizon Caller Name ID app, tap "Block management," tap "Spam filter", then toggle the feature on and choose the danger level. Go to "Caller ID and spam protection" in Call Settings, then turn on "Caller ID and spam protection." Note that is not made available by all carriers. And Google offers caller ID & spam protection for Android.

Android adware tricks ad networks into thinking it's an iPhone to make more money

as declared in Google has recently removed 22 Android apps from the Play Store. What made this particular Android adware campaign stand out was not the fact that the infected apps clicked ads behind users' backs, but the fact that the apps disguised the Android device as an iPhone in the eyes of online advertisers. This particular adware gang appears to have noticed this small detail and reacted accordingly. Of the 22 apps, the most popular app was Sparkle, an Android flashlight app downloaded more than one million times. Sophos published the list of all 22 apps that contained the malicious adware code.