Samsung Galaxy S10 Facial Recognition Fooled by a Video of the Phone Owner (zdnet.com)

Experts have proven once again that facial recognition on modern devices remains hilariously insecure and can be bypassed using simple tricks such as showing an image or a video in front of a device's camera. From a report: The latest device to fall victim to such attacks is Samsung Galaxy S10, Samsung's latest top tier phone and considered one of the world's most advanced smartphones to date. Unfortunately, the Galaxy S10's facial recognition feature remains just as weak as the one supported in its previous versions or on the devices of its competitors, according to Lewis Hilsenteger, a smartphone reviewer better known as Unbox Therapy on YouTube. Hilsenteger showed in a demo video uploaded on his YouTube channel last week how putting up a video of the phone owner in front of the Galaxy S10 front camera would trick the facial recognition system into unlocking the device.

Comments

3D and IR

[goombah99]

There's a reason apple went with costly 3D imaging. Yes of course there's the prospect of spoofing it with a 3D mask but that's a pretty invasive and premeditated attack. You can't do it on the fly like a video. As has been noted many times, given some preparation it's possible to spoof fingerprint scanners. indeed it seems it's probably easier to spoof fingerprint scanners in many implementations.

Use the 3d fingerscanner instead

[Anonymous Coward]

If I recall corectly, Samsung were pretty upfront about this, that the face scanning is less secure than the fingerprint scanner.

It's not a bug, it's by design. :)