In brief: We tend to believe that if our Android phones are lost or stolen, a fingerprint lock will ensure that the sensitive data they hold stays safe. But Chinese researchers have found a way to ...

Researchers at Tencent Labs and Zhejiang University have presented a new attack called 'BrutePrint,' which brute-forces fingerprints on modern smartphones to bypass ...

Chinese researchers from Tencent Labs and Zhejiang University have uncovered a new method of attack that can bypass user authentication on modern smartphones by brute-forcing fingerprints, ...

Arol is a tech journalist who worked as a news and feature writer for Android Police from 2021 to 2023. He first began writing online for the short-lived portal of Spanish-language gaming forum ...

Certain PIN codes are blacklisted on iOS. For example, iOS recommends you don't use 0000 or 0011, but doesn't have a problem with 0001 or 1001. But what combination of numbers are blacklisted, and ...

A French research team with EURECOM has discovered a scary Bluetooth security flaw. Using a brute-force attack, a man-in-the-middle (MitM) operator could spoof two connected devices using Bluetooth ...