Honor 90 launches with 200-megapixel camera and eye-friendly display

Former Huawei sub-brand Honor has announced the international launch of the Honor 90 smartphone, which not only rivals the mighty Galaxy S23 Ultra in the camera department but boasts a HDR10 OLED display that’s designed to be kind to your peepers.Conti… Continue reading Honor 90 launches with 200-megapixel camera and eye-friendly display

App will turn a smartphone into an accurate thermometer

Since the advent of COVID-19, people have been more sensitive to checking for signs of fever. Now, researchers from the University of Washington have developed an app that turns a regular smartphone into an accurate, easy-to-use thermometer.Continue Re… Continue reading App will turn a smartphone into an accurate thermometer

Motorola hopes you’ll flip over the large cover screen on the Razr+

Back in the mid-2000s, Motorola scored a massive global hit with a high-style flip-phone called the Razr. The fashion icon was revived for the smartphone age in 2019, and now the company has out-flipped the competition with the Razr Plus.Continue Readi… Continue reading Motorola hopes you’ll flip over the large cover screen on the Razr+

Brute-Forcing a Fingerprint Reader

It’s neither hard nor expensive:

Unlike password authentication, which requires a direct match between what is inputted and what’s stored in a database, fingerprint authentication determines a match using a reference threshold. As a result, a successful fingerprint brute-force attack requires only that an inputted image provides an acceptable approximation of an image in the fingerprint database. BrutePrint manipulates the false acceptance rate (FAR) to increase the threshold so fewer approximate images are accepted.

BrutePrint acts as an adversary in the middle between the fingerprint sensor and the trusted execution environment and exploits vulnerabilities that allow for unlimited guesses…

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