Collaborate Disseminate
With the proliferation of biometric access to mobile devices, entering a password on your desktop can feel so passé. [Snazzy Labs] decided to fix this problem for his Mac by …read more Continue reading Standalone Touch ID for Your Desktop Mac
The fingerprint reader on Samsung’s flagship S10 and Note10 smartphones can be spoofed with a $3 screen protector. Continue reading Samsung Galaxy S10 fingerprint reader beaten by $3 gel protector
A U.K. woman alleged that her husband was able to bypass her Samsung Galaxy S10 smartphone’s fingerprint reader when the phone was encased by a third-party screen protector. Continue reading Galaxy S10 Fingerprint Sensor Thwarted With Screen Protector: Report
For institutions with high traffic, such as schools and movie theaters, it can be difficult to keep track of individuals moving in and out, especially without a critical mass of security. For schools especially, keeping track of student attendance and preventing kids from leaving campus in the middle of the …read more
In 2008, the then German interior minister, [Wolfgang Schäuble] had his fingerprint reproduced by members of the German Chaos Computer Club, or CCC, and published on a piece of plastic film distributed with their magazine. [Schäuble] was a keen proponent of mass gathering of biometric information by the state, and his widely circulated fingerprint lifted from a water glass served as an effective demonstration against the supposed infallibility of biometric information.
It was reported at the time that the plastic [Schäuble] fingerprint could fool the commercial scanners of the day, including those used by the German passport agency, and the …read more
Continue reading RaspiReader, An Open Source Fingerprint Reader
Security researchers have tricked the fingerprint sensor on two smartphones with an inkjet printer, special silver conductive ink and paper. Continue reading Your smartphone fingerprint reader could be hacked using paper and ink