BOSTON (Reuters) - Hackers are gearing up for Friday's iPhone 5S release with a contest to crack the device's first-ever fingerprint scanner, a high-tech feature that Apple Inc says makes users' data ...

BERLIN - A German hacking group claimed Monday it had successfully bypassed the fingerprint-based security system used to unlock Apple's new iPhone 5S. A spokesman for the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) ...

It took just four days for German researchers to trick the Samsung Galaxy S5’s fingerprint scanner into accepting a mold of a fingerprint instead of a real finger. Despite fingerprint authentication ...

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 13, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- ITBiometrics, a biometrics company that specializes in security for online financial transactions and biometric identity authentication, announced ...

Insecurity experts at Blackwing Intelligence have published an extensive document showing how they had managed to work around some popular fingerprint sensors used in Windows PCs. Security boffin ...

The new iPhone fingerprint sensor is a nice piece of technology, but what is Apple's contingency plan when it gets hacked? One might easily imagine lifting fingerprints from say, a beer mug, and then ...

Fingerprint sensors have been around for quite some time, and they’ve become a standard feature in most smartphones. Apple introduced Touch ID on the iPhone 5s in 2013. Since then, it has appeared on ...

The iPhone 5S was released to the general public on Friday. Little more than 48 hours later, a group of hackers found a way to bypass the device's fingerprint-based security system that doesn't ...

Arol is a tech journalist who worked as a news and feature writer for Android Police from 2021 to 2023. He first began writing online for the short-lived portal of Spanish-language gaming forum ...

We here at The Verge have tried to warn everyone about smart locks, particularly smart locks that rely on fingerprints for authentication. The TappLock is one such lock that was crowdfunded on ...

The images correspond to the top 5 partial fingerprints that were selected as MasterPrints from a fingerprint data set. Researchers at NYU Tandon and Michigan State University coined the term ...