The flaw allows hackers to bypass handset lock screens in seconds. A design flaw affecting all in-display fingerprint sensors – that left over a half-dozen cellphone models vulnerable to a trivial ...

The heavily marketed fingerprint sensor in Samsung’s new Galaxy 5 smartphone has been defeated by whitehat hackers who were able to gain unfettered access to a PayPal account linked to the handset.

A new variant of Chameleon Android malware has been found in the wild with new features, notable among them the ability to bypass fingerprint locks. The Chameleon Android banking trojan first entered ...

For those paranoid spy folks out there, SRLabs has pointed out an additional security weakness which could help an attacker use the fingerprint hack to access an iPhone 5s. The fingerprint hack takes ...

Two weeks ago Apple introduced its latest and greatest, the iPhone 5s. One of the phone’s much-touted and futuristic-sounding features is a fingerprint scanner, a biometric sensor that, theoretically, ...

Much like the Apple iPhone 5S, the smartphone, which first hit the market last week, boasts a fingerprint scanner as an added layer of security. Now the same research outfit that was able to hack the ...

There's more than one way to hack an iPhone. Although Apple has refused to help the FBI break into a San Bernardino suspect's old iPhone, that doesn't mean law enforcement is out of options. They can ...

Over the weekend the hacker collective Computer Chaos Club claims to have defeated the new Touch ID fingerprint sensor on the iPhone 5S. It’s not a “hack” because the team has not gained digital ...

We here at The Verge have tried to warn everyone about smart locks, particularly smart locks that rely on fingerprints for authentication. The TappLock is one such lock that was crowdfunded on ...