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fingerprints

8 articles

What's the best way to lock an Android smartphone?
  • Android

What’s the best way to lock your smartphone?

Which screen-locking method best protects your Android smartphone: PIN code, password, pattern lock, fingerprint, or face recognition?

  • Alanna Titterington

  • June 14, 2023

Brute-forcing a fingerprint-protected smartphone
  • biometrics

BrutePrint: bypassing smartphone fingerprint protection

Android fingerprint protection isn’t that reliable after all: it can be brute-forced even without a copy of your fingerprint.

  • Alanna Titterington

  • May 31, 2023

The FPMON extension lets users know which information websites collect to “fingerprint” users’ browsers
  • RC3

How to tell if a website is taking your (browser) fingerprints

Researchers have created an extension to learn about the information websites collect to “fingerprint” browsers.

  • Alex Perekalin

  • January 12, 2021

Experts from Cisco Talos created fake fingerprints able to fool smartphone, tablet, and laptop sensors as well as smart locks, but it took some effort
  • SAS

Faking fingerprints — doable, but hard

Researchers found a way to create fake fingerprints to fool many devices, although it took a lot of effort.

  • Hugh Aver

  • April 15, 2020

  • atm

Is biometric banking secure?

ATMs will soon use fingerprint readers and iris sensors to identify customers. But is biometric authentication as secure as advertised?

  • Marvin the Robot

  • October 18, 2016

  • advice

Mobile fingerprint sensors: more or less secure?

Vendors claim, that a fingerprint sensor in your smartphone is user-friendly and really secure. But it’s not true.

  • Kate Kochetkova

  • January 21, 2016

  • biometrics

How easy is it for hackers to steal your face?

Cybercriminals hunt for data of all kinds: personal details, photos, videos and even ways that users interact with others; this data is often stolen from social networks. Stolen data is

  • Kate Kochetkova

  • October 28, 2015

  • apple

Security Week 39: XcodeGhost, the leak of D-Link certificates, $1M for bugs in iOS9

Today’s weekly news digest covers the stories about various mistakes in coding, and how they can be used for different purposes, including earning money.

  • Konstantin Goncharov

  • September 29, 2015

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