Researchers from FireEye have revealed that it is possible to attack Android smartphone to remotely steal users fingerprints on a large scale The attack could allow attackers to remotely harvest fingerprints in a large scale from the handset of the major manufacturers including HTC, Samsung and Huawei. Apple iOS is quite secure because it encrypts fingerprint data from the scanner with a crypto key, making it unreadable even if hackers gain access. The security issue is quite easy to fix by encrypting fingerprint data on Android devices and a number of vendors are already working to a security update.”]
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