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Subject: [ISN] German group claims to have hacked Apple iPhone fingerprint scanner
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2013-09-23 7:05:44
Message-ID: alpine.DEB.2.02.1309230705340.13335 () infosecnews ! org
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By Jim Finkle
Reuters
September 22, 2013
BOSTON - A group of German hackers claimed to have cracked the iPhone
fingerprint scanner on Sunday, just two days after Apple Inc(NSQ:AAPL)
launched the technology that it promises will better protect devices from
criminals and snoopers seeking access.
If the claim is verified, it will be embarrassing for Apple which is
betting on the scanner to set its smartphone apart from new models of
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and others running the Android operating system
of Google Inc (NSQ:GOOG).
Two prominent iPhone security experts told Reuters that they believed the
German group, known as the Chaos Computing Club, or CCC, had succeeded in
defeating Apple's Touch ID, though they had not personally replicated the
work.
One of them, Charlie Miller, co-author of the iOS Hacker's Handbook,
described the work as "a complete break" of Touch ID security. "It
certainly opens up a new possibility for attackers."
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