Security News

5.6 Million Fingerprints Stolen In OPM Hack (Threatpost)
2015-09-23 22:15

It turns out roughly 5.6 million individuals may have had their fingerprints stolen as part of this year’s mammoth Office of Personnel Management breach – a figure five times what the agency...

Fingerprints On Mobile Devices: Abusing and Leaking (Reddit)
2015-08-10 18:23

Severe weaknesses in Android handsets could leak user fingerprints (ArsTechnica)
2015-08-10 17:23

HTC phone stores fingerprints in easily accessible plaintext (Help Net Security)
2015-08-10 12:25

Pressing a finger on your mobile phone's fingerprint scanner has to be the easiest, most seamless way to unlock the device, and this is why more and more manufacturers equip their mobile products with...

Hackers can remotely steal fingerprints from Android phones (ZDNet)
2015-08-05 15:27

Security Researchers Use ZigBee Sniffing Drone to Find, Fingerprint, and Map IoT Devices (Reddit)
2015-08-04 18:18

Flaw in Fingerprint Access Devices Could Make It Easy to Open Doors (SecurityWeek)
2015-07-31 18:18

Fingerprint sensors could be coming to the Apple TV (CNET)
2015-07-24 21:18

Sensitive info of over 21.5M people, including SSNs and fingerprints, stolen in OPM hack (Help Net Security)
2015-07-10 07:36

The US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has revealed on Thursday the full extent of the information stolen in the two data breaches it suffered in 2014. In the first breach, personnel data (nam...

21.5 million SSNs stolen in second OPM breach, along with fingerprints and background info (SC Magazine)
2015-07-09 22:12