Passwords aren't the best way to authenticate

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For example, you could make it so that when a person logs into a website, they enter their username, and the site automatically sends an authentication request through an external channel, say, via a phone with biometrics. Thanks to the Web Authn standard, which will need to be integrated into the sites and applications being developed, this process will flow seamlessly in the background.

and Web Authn takes it a step further by allowing us to create a situation where we're no longer asked for passwords, Smith says.

4. Facial recognition tricks: Shortly after Apple jamaica mobile database its latest smartphone, the Apple X, security researchers hacked its Face ID facial recognition technology using a $200, 3D-printed and graphically enhanced mask. Although the Face ID setup process requires the user's head to move, the successful hack demonstrated the dangers of using essentially static images to identify a user.

A team of researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology has created an improved technology called Real-Time CAPTCHA, which introduces randomness into the recognition process. The authentication mechanism asks the user to perform some unspecified action, such as smiling or saying hello, within a short time window.

The researchers found that in the case of a machine-generated response, the fastest computer would need over 10 seconds to transmit the command and modify the machine-generated image, while a human would respond in about one second.

“If the system uses a static face, that’s not good, and the task for the user should be random,” says Wenke Li, a professor of computer science at the same institute. “People respond to such tasks naturally better than machines. That’s exactly what we need — to authenticate through tasks at which humans will always be better than machines.”