If you are determined enough to make a fake fingerprint of a phone, you can unlock it 80 percent of the time, according to a new Talos security study. The Talos study shows how researchers spent about ...

It probably has some kind of failsafe that makes sure it is seeing a “real” fingerprint (you can’t burn off your fingerprints or just put Scotch tape over them), but unless the system has a database ...

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Researchers from a Chinese university have discovered a way to unlock some Android devices using false fingerprints. The researchers found two security flaws in the fingerprint recognition systems of ...