Tag: Samsung Galaxy S8

  • Samsung Launches Bug Bounty Program — Offering up to $200,000 in Rewards

    With the growing number of cyber attacks and data breaches, a number of tech companies and organisations have started Bug Bounty programs for encouraging hackers, bug hunters and researchers to find and responsibly report bugs in their services and get rewarded. Samsung is the latest in the list of tech companies to launch a bug…

  • Samsung Galaxy S8 Iris Recognition Cracked

    Security experts claim to have cracked the iris recognition system on the new Samsung Galaxy S8 smartphone, using just a digital camera and a contact lens. Chaos Computer Club (CCC) hackers explained in a video how easy it was to fool the biometric scanning system in the top-end device. Read full news article on Infosecurity…

  • Samsung Galaxy S8 Iris Scanner Hacked In Three Simple Steps

    A video showing how to defeat Samsung’s iris scanner has appeared online. It seems almost implausible that this would be enough to get around security that Samsung claims is 100 times more secure than fingerprints. Read full news article on Forbes.com  

  • Samsung Galaxy S8 iris scanner easily fooled by hackers

    The Chaos Computer Club recently posted a video showing how they fooled the iris scanner on Samsung’s new flagship phone. The group said that standard PIN systems are more secure. Read full news article on TechRepublic  

  • ‘Ultrasecure’ Samsung Galaxy S8 iris scanner can be easily tricked, say hackers

    Germany’s Chaos Computer Club (CCC), a venerable group of white-hat hackers, claims to have figured out a relatively straightforward way to trick the iris-recognition system on Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S8 smartphone. The CCC has a long history of embarrassing tech firms by demonstrating vulnerabilities in their biometric authentication systems. Read full news article on ZDNet…

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