Just a few days after the release date, the Samsung Galaxy S5 overwritten dreadful news about data security vulnerability that can be "uprooted" from the fingerprint scanner.
This stems from a video tutorial on YouTube, which includes a tutorial on the subject of a user SRLabs Samsung Galaxy S5 is "manipulating" fingerprint and a fingerprint scanner hacked Samsung Galaxy S5, even Paypal! In the video, shows TouchID sensor to unlock the phone by swiping a fingerprint in the fingerprint panel at the bottom of the screen.
In the video the user ran a sort of silicone rubber materials that have previously been printed with the owner's fingerprints Samsung Galaxy S5. And ... all open smoothly! Do not stop there. The user may also enter the Paypal application, fingerprint scanning and inserting in it. And it worked again!
This is terrible news for Samsung . Especially the Galaxy S5 being intensively promoted by Samsung in the global market . Indeed , the level of difficulty in obtaining the user's fingerprint is still difficult , because inevitably you have to secretly take the fingerprint sample . Hackers need to know which finger to use , then get the fingerprints , and create " artificial fingerprints " as shown in the video . From there, he went allow access to the device without ever needing to enter a password .In contrast to Apple, which still requires you to enter a password every time the device is rebooted . Worse, Samsung never need to enter a password when using the PayPal app , this also means terrible news for PayPal yours operated on Samsung Galaxy S5 .In a statement to BGR , PayPal said that their service does not ever have access to fingerprint and only using cryptographic keys that are used for security . However, if your device is compromised, locking can be reset , and unfortunately Paypal may forget that the new locking settings generated using fingerprint scans from the same device .
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