Re:Smartphone PIN revealed by camera and microphone
by trebor on Monday November 11, 2013 @12:57PM
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To bypass the iPhone 5S fingerprint scan requires both access to the physical phone, and a high quality fingerprint. And getting the latter as a very high DPI scan is no mean feat. And then you need a latex printer with the same 500+ DPI resolution to compromise the device.
Security researchers have yet to comment on if the iPhone 5S can be remotely compromised to expose the fingerprint data.
A pin, using the described method, can be captured by just about any app on Android with enough permissions to activate the camera. And I've seen quite a few applications that ask for far more authority than they need. All the application needs to do is run a service in the background and observe the motion of the phone.
Security researchers have yet to comment on if the iPhone 5S can be remotely compromised to expose the fingerprint data.
A pin, using the described method, can be captured by just about any app on Android with enough permissions to activate the camera. And I've seen quite a few applications that ask for far more authority than they need. All the application needs to do is run a service in the background and observe the motion of the phone.