A speaker at the Chaos Computer Club annual conference showed how fingerprints of others can be copied using only a few pictures. As a demonstration, the speaker copied the thumbprint of Ursula von ...

A skilled hacker can replicate someone’s fingerprint based solely on a medium-range picture of their thumb, a prominent cyber expert proved over the weekend. Jan Krissler, a German member of the Chaos ...

An association of hackers known as Chaos Computer Club has found a way to reproduce fingerprints by using just a couple of photos of someone's fingers. The group explained its method at the 31st ...

Fingerprints have long been viewed as the ultimate identifier, unique only to you and impossible to steal, which is why fingerprint readers have become integral to smartphone and mobile device ...

Sailors applying for a background check will no longer need to submit a hard copy of their fingerprints. Officials saw the requirement as contributing to the background check system’s backlog. Instead ...

Released by The Department of Public Safety: TEXAS - The Texas Department of Public Safety no longer accepts hard-copy fingerprint cards from applicants for Texas concealed handgun licenses. All ...

Biometric security just took a big blow to the chin. Fingerprint scanners are increasingly used for security in Apple and Samsung devices, along with many others, and are even used for voter ...

The Chaos Computer Club claims to be able to bypass Apple's new Touch ID fingerprint sensor with a photo of the original user's fingerprint. The bypass is demonstrated in this short video: The system ...