Have you ever found some changes on your credit card or on your private bank account that surprised you? Now you can imagine how simple it is for someone to hack your bank data. As New York Times highlights, a lot of the world’s largest banks understand and agree that the standard account passwords that contain letters, numbers and characters used for many years are unsafe due to current security threats. While facing these security threats, business is looking for an absolutely new way of protection, including retina scans, face recognition, and biometric identification.
Are passwords clumsy?
If you are a regular reader of tech news, you commonly find out many security flaws because they happen so often. First of all passwords are easy to steal, most complex and secure ones are really hard to keep in mind and if this kind of password is stolen it can’t protect anything. Industries that need to use private information — for example, financial information, and keep it protected, do know about all of these problems and that’s why they are strongly investing in alternatives. Simple example: there is a need in only two things to clear out somebody’s cash account at an ATM — fake credit card and a pin code. Modern supercomputers can assort 350 billion password combinations in second.
Discovering other opportunities
Sci-fi movies, as you possibly know, look into the future through the years and show us the kind of super-safe human body or chip scanning as a security extent. In fact, this fantasy can be realized in the nearest future. Disney World is one primary example of a high-tech admission: by using radio-frequency identification wristband called “MagicBands” to unlock the door to the hotel room or purchasing. Besides, some big theme parks now put into practice a biometric fingerprint to authenticate season pass owners and put the fraudful passes to an end.
Enter the Smartphone with Fingerprint Scanner
Some time ago, companies that tried to improve personal security has to keep their ideas because devices needed for realizing these high level security in practice were unavailable. Everything has changed when smartphone market started to implement this sci-fi security part and almost everyone was occupied by this kind of devices. In 2011 Motorola featured first fingerprint scanner on Motorola Atrix device. Then, two years later, Apple adds the same technology on iPhone 5s. And of course a big part of the industry followed Apple’s steps. Mobile devices with this technology was a real breakthrough in security without passwords. Interesting fact that 72% of adult Americans own a smartphone, most of them are locked with traditional password.
One of the innovative feature of iPhone 5s smartphone was the Touch ID technology. Apple wasn’t first in fingerprint security tech, Motorola Atrix was, and for now this is the most secure protection type.