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4.25.2015

A serious flaw can be used to steal user data Galaxy S5



The biometric fingerprint plotter technology is one of the most advanced means of ensuring the Privacy notice of user data devices, but it seems that this is not entirely true, where security researchers have unveiled a new flaw allows hackers to penetrate the biometric reader and collect user information.


Two security researchers detection officers "Wei Tao" and "Yulong Zhang," security company "FireEye" discovered a security flaw threaten users where he managed to intercept the footprint of data users by biometric fingerprint reader and before he reached the safety zone data where it is stored.

According to researchers, this serious threat not only users gap Samsung Galaxy S5, but those other phones containing a biometric fingerprint reader and operating system to run Android version 5.0. And according to researchers at the company "FireEye" they informed Samsung, but so far it has not taken steps to address the problem, in addition, they advise users to the Android system update.

And this brings to mind the analyzes and studies that indicated that the biometric fingerprint reader is not an effective way to protect data, and it can be hacked.

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