The fingerprint scanner on Android, designed to protect the user’s personal data can be easily hacked by hackers. This was stated by the information security experts at the world security conference Black Hat in Las Vegas.
For the first half of the week at the conference said FireEye employees – Y. Zhang and T. Wei. They spoke in detail about what problems exist in the protection of gadgets running Android. In particular, the experts criticized the fingerprint scanner. According to FireEye, the cyber criminals will not be difficult to circumvent biometric protection devices. Hacking gadgets can be accomplished by using malicious mobile applications.
The most dangerous can be considered that using such applications hackers can collect a database with the fingerprints of users “phones”. Hacked password delivers not so much a hassle as the stolen prints, because of the secret combination of characters can be changed, and biometric data are given to one for life, experts say.
According to Zhang and Wei, not all Android devices can be hacked using the above applications. However, the most popular devices in the Google ecosystem, such as the Samsung Galaxy S5 and HTC One Max. The other day the vendors were listed on these vulnerabilities, it is likely that soon they will be eliminated.
Owners of iPhone and iPad worry on this score is not necessary – biometric Touch ID protection cannot be hacked by using malware.
