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German researchers hack Galaxy S5 fingerprint login

2014-04-16 15:53:02| InfoWorld: Top News

It took just four days for German researchers to trick the Samsung Galaxy S5's fingerprint scanner into accepting a mold of a fingerprint instead of a real finger. Despite fingerprint authentication being one of the headline features on Samsung's new flagship model, the company's implementation of it "leaves much to be desired," SRLabs said in a video demonstration of the hack posted on Youtube.

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