Oracle said 19 of these flaws could be exploited by hackers remotely without authentication.

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Prior to iOS 4.3 if a user entered their password to make a purchase their device would allow unlimited further sales without authentication for a 15-minute period.

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Discovered and submitted to the agency this past Monday, the exploit unearthed by Smith takes advantage of an "SNMP backdoor" : an internet protocol that allows for remote network administrative control without authentication.

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He found that commands sent to the device via a certain connection, port 9000, were accepted without any authentication.

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It is within these that gaps of trust among different systems that could allow bad actors access to sensitive data without proper authentication.

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It snaps into a USB port in the computer and acts as an authentication tool without which the user cannot access the files.

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In the future, the phone or tablet will be used for multifactor authentication, obtaining up to five factors without inconveniencing the account holder: the phone itself (something you have), a PIN number (something you know), face recognition (something you are), voice recognition (something you are), and GPS (somewhere you are).

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Sidestepping lockscreen codes and fingerprint scanners -- and without any new hardware demands -- KDDI has unveiled a new palm authentication app that takes advantage of the high-resolution camera on its Android smartphones.

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