{"id":6356,"date":"2019-10-17T16:07:47","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T20:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/?p=6356"},"modified":"2019-10-17T16:07:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T20:07:47","slug":"samsung-anyones-thumbprint-can-unlock-galaxy-s10-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/2019\/10\/17\/samsung-anyones-thumbprint-can-unlock-galaxy-s10-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung: Anyone&#8217;s thumbprint can unlock Galaxy S10 phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"amp-o-paragraph--bold\">A flaw that means any fingerprint can unlock a Galaxy S10 phone has been acknowledged by Samsung.<\/p>\n<p class=\"amp-o-paragraph\">It promised a software patch that would fix the problem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"amp-o-paragraph\">The issue was spotted by a British woman whose husband was able to unlock her phone with his thumbprint when it was stored in a cheap case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"amp-o-paragraph\">When the S10 was launched, in March, Samsung described the fingerprint authentication system as &#8220;revolutionary&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"amp-o-crosshead\">Air gap<\/h2>\n<p class=\"amp-o-paragraph\">The scanner sends ultrasounds to detect 3D ridges of fingerprints in order to recognise users.<\/p>\n<p class=\"amp-o-paragraph\">Samsung said it was &#8220;aware of the case of S10&#8217;s malfunctioning fingerprint recognition and will soon issue a software patch&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"amp-o-paragraph\">South Korea&#8217;s online-only KaKao Bank told customers to switch off the fingerprint-recognition option to log in to its services until the issue was fixed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"amp-o-paragraph\">Previous reports suggested some screen protectors were incompatible with Samsung&#8217;s reader because they left a small air gap that interfered with the scanning.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"amp-o-crosshead\">Thumb print<\/h2>\n<p class=\"amp-o-paragraph\">The British couple who discovered the security issue\u00a0<a class=\"amp-o-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/tech\/10127908\/samsung-galaxy-s10-screen-protector-ebay\/\">told the Sun newspaper<\/a>\u00a0it was a &#8220;real concern&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A flaw that means any fingerprint can unlock a Galaxy S10 phone has been acknowledged by Samsung. It promised a software patch that would fix the problem. The issue was spotted by a British woman whose husband was able to unlock her phone with his thumbprint when it was stored in a cheap case. When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22923,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[805801],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-week-08-social-engineering-encoding-and-encryption","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22923"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6357,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6356\/revisions\/6357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}