Here we have the new Galaxy S5 and after only 4 days of being released to the public, staff from Security Research Labs have found security flaws on the fingerprint scanner of this device. They claim to have hacked and fooled the fingerprint scanner using a mould made out of glue and other components. This security flaw can be exploited by hackers all around the world and trigger money transfers via PayPal and other similar services. This also leaves a window open for hackers to steal users personal information and cause significant damages.
Something that caught my attention was that this same mould, made out of glue, was the same one used to bypass the fingerprint scanner on the Iphone 5. This shows us that companies are not taking this security flaws seriously. They already knew this would happen, they take years in development of their technology, how can something like this have slipped away unnoticed on their testing? Why make people that pay a hefty amount of money for this handsets to go through this? There are many questions to be answered.
"While we take the findings from Security Research Labs [SRL] very seriously, we are still confident that fingerprint authentication offers an easier and more secure way to pay on mobile devices than passwords or credit cards," Samsung said. It added that even if users were hacked it would cover their losses. A spokesman for Samsung was unable to comment.
Here is the video of the actual bypassing of the fingerprint scanner in the new Galaxy S5:
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