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When it comes to security and the iris recognition technology used in its flagship Galaxy S8 smartphone, Samsung touted, “The patterns in your irises are unique to you and are virtually impossible to ...

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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 ...

Hackers have once again proved there's no such thing as true security for your phone. Researchers at the Chaos Computer Club (via Motherboard) claim to have bypassed the iris scanner on Samsung's ...

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Samsung takes security very seriously. For the Galaxy S8 and S8+, the company wanted to ensure that the devices had top-notch security features. So they incorporated biometrics into the devices. The ...

One of the coolest features from the Galaxy Note 7 (RIP) is back and better on the Galaxy S8 and S8+. I'm, of course, talking about the Note 7's iris scanner. Samsung introduced the iris scanner on ...

Germany’s venerable Chaos Computer Club (CCC) takes no prisoners — especially when it comes to smartphone security. After successfully fooling a fingerprint sensor using high-resolution images of a ...

Samsung is only a few months away from unveiling the Galaxy S8 to the world. The smartphone will reportedly ditch the 3.5mm headphone jack and drop its physical home button for a fingerprint scanner ...