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Samsung Galaxy S5 fingerprint reader hacked its the iPhone 5s all over again!

Security researchers from SRLabs posted a video on YouTube demonstrating how they were able to trick the fingerprint scanner with a fake fingerprint made of wood glue. The same approach allowed a similar and well-publicised hack of the iPhone 5s Touch ID last year. Samsung’s implementation is even less secure than Touch ID that Apple unveiled in September 2013, which is ironic given the former Samsung CEOs contention that beating Apple is no longer merely an objective, [but] our survival strategy”]

Source: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/04/17/samsung-galaxy-s5-fingerprint-hacked-iphone-5s-all-over-again/

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