The fingerprint scanner lets you unlock your phone using your fingerprint as well as make payments through Paypal (smell something?). SRLabs researchers recently uploaded a YouTube video, demonstrated how they were able to bypass the fingerprint authentication mechanism to gain unauthorized access just by using a lifted fingerprint with wood-glue based dummy finger. Paypal users are the ones at a big risk since the feature can also be used to transfer money to other paypal accounts. More reading here.
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Bypassing Samsung Galaxy S5 fingerprint scanner
Samsung just launched the Samsung Galaxy S5 recently and it comes with a bio-metrics feature known as the fingerprint scanner to provide an extra layer of security.
The fingerprint scanner lets you unlock your phone using your fingerprint as well as make payments through Paypal (smell something?). SRLabs researchers recently uploaded a YouTube video, demonstrated how they were able to bypass the fingerprint authentication mechanism to gain unauthorized access just by using a lifted fingerprint with wood-glue based dummy finger. Paypal users are the ones at a big risk since the feature can also be used to transfer money to other paypal accounts. More reading here.
The fingerprint scanner lets you unlock your phone using your fingerprint as well as make payments through Paypal (smell something?). SRLabs researchers recently uploaded a YouTube video, demonstrated how they were able to bypass the fingerprint authentication mechanism to gain unauthorized access just by using a lifted fingerprint with wood-glue based dummy finger. Paypal users are the ones at a big risk since the feature can also be used to transfer money to other paypal accounts. More reading here.
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