The bank says this form of biometric authentication is the most secure as it uses 266 unique characters compared with 40 for fingerprints – which can also still be used to log into the TSB app. “As well as a more customer-friendly approach to identification, iris recognition is also the most secure method of authentication available today. “However, German hackers were recently able to trick a Samsung Galaxy S8’s iris scanner with a picture of the device owner’s eye and a contact lens. “This was the same month that HSBC’s voice recognition security system was fooled by a journalist. Biometric authentication is not entirely immune to potential attack and therefore should not be relied on as the sole means of verifying a user.

Source: The Guardian July 20, 2017 11:26 UTC