OS X/iOS: If you have a relatively recent Mac and an iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch equipped with TouchID, Apple’s fingerprint-reading security feature, MacID lets you turn your mobile device into a key that can unlock your Mac—when you’re nearby and …
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What happens if you hack your local tax office? Can you trust the Samsung Galaxy S5’s fingerprint security? Did WhatsApp finally get security right in its app? Find out the answers in one entertaining minute of video – it’s 60 Second Security!
Naked Security – Sophos
With its fingerprint scanner and heart-rate sensor, Samsung’s Galaxy S5 has been a headline grabber since the almost phablet-sized smartphone launched at Mobile World Congress. Both the Galaxy S5 fingerprint scanner and even the “wallet” API may sound like Apple copycat moves, but there are significant differences.
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The biometrics team of Germany’s well-known Chaos Computer Club claims it has “cracked” Apple’s Touch ID system. From a fingerprint left on glass, the team claims to have used a technique documented by the CCC back in 2004 to produce a “fake finger.”
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