In its quest for hardware perfection, Apple can't seem to resist testing the balance between making things easy and making them secure. Sure, a six-digit passcode is virtually impossible for a thief ...

Security researchers have cracked Apple’s FaceID biometric system yet again. But there’s an unusual caveat to this trick: to successfully unlock an iPhone, the attackers first need to make sure the ...

Apple revealed its new FaceID today in the Steve Jobs theater on its campus in Cupertino, California. Law enforcement officials who have had trouble unlocking Apple phones in the past must be ...

During and after yesterday’s Apple announcement of its FaceID unlocking feature for its new iPhone X, some brief discourse began on the Ars #staff Slack channel concerning legal rights when your face ...

There's a lot of angst right now over FaceID, Apple's new facial recognition system that's a core feature of the upcoming iPhone X. Besides the obvious privacy concerns, some people are worried that ...

In the several weeks that the government has been recommending that those under shelter-in-place orders wear face masks while venturing outside, many users of iPhones have noticed that the FaceID ...

Security researchers have broken Apple's FaceID security system using a mask they said takes around a few days to make and costs only $150. The authors of this research are experts from Vietnamese ...

One of the more interesting exploits discussed at BlackHat USA this week was the use of glasses and tape on a sleeping person to trick FaceID into unlocking a phone and even processing payments. An ...

Heavy sleepers should probably not leave their iPhones lying around, after a team of security researchers exposed a vulnerability with the FaceID facial recognition system using an ordinary pair of ...

Apple was granted a patent on November 28, originally filed in 2016, for a technology that could bring FaceID to the iMac and MacBook sooner rather than later. The patent uses technology from ...