Apple’s iPhone 6 fingerprint scanner is more difficult to fool with a fake fingerprint than the previous version in the iPhone 5s. The new scanner’s level of accuracy is sufficient for use with Apple Pay, the payment system available in the phone 6. A fake fingerprint would most likely be used in a targeted attack against an individual, a security expert says. Apple Pay uses a near-field communication (NFC) transmitter to send payment data to a store reader, but the actual credit card number is never sent.”]

