Security company says a mask fooled Face ID on iPhone X


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 15 Nov 2017

A customer sets up his iPhone X Face ID during its launch at the Apple store in Singapore November 3, 2017. REUTERS/Edgar Su

WASHINGTON: Less than a week after the Apple iPhone X went on the market, a cybersecurity firm said it had already defeated the new phone's vaunted face recognition system using a US$150 (RM627.90) mask made on a 3D printer. 

"Apple Face ID is not an effective security measure," a Vietnam-based cybersecurity firm, Bkav, said in a statement and video on its website. 

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