BERLIN - A German hacking group claimed Monday it had successfully bypassed the fingerprint-based security system used to unlock Apple's new iPhone 5S. A spokesman for the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) ...

Insecurity experts at Blackwing Intelligence have published an extensive document showing how they had managed to work around some popular fingerprint sensors used in Windows PCs. Security boffin ...

Keeping your smartphone locked behind a fingerprint scanner seems like the most secure way to protect your privacy, but it turns out this may not be as safe as you once thought. Researchers found that ...

The iPhone 5S was released to the general public on Friday. Little more than 48 hours later, a group of hackers found a way to bypass the device's fingerprint-based security system that doesn't ...

The new iPhone fingerprint sensor is a nice piece of technology, but what is Apple's contingency plan when it gets hacked? One might easily imagine lifting fingerprints from say, a beer mug, and then ...

Doctors in Brazil are using phony silicon fingers to fool biometric scanners. Sneaky? Sure. But you really gotta hand it to them. We all know passwords suck – they’re hard to remember, a pain in the ...

We here at The Verge have tried to warn everyone about smart locks, particularly smart locks that rely on fingerprints for authentication. The TappLock is one such lock that was crowdfunded on ...

We’re back! And while the column took a week off for Thanksgiving, the security world didn’t. The most pressing news is an issue in Owncloud, that is already under active exploitation. The problem is ...

Why would anyone want to steal the fingerprints of Federal government employees? Not for identity theft; it is all about biometric espionage. Sign up here. Earlier this summer the United States ...