{"id":15501,"date":"2019-10-17T15:03:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T14:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=15501"},"modified":"2019-10-17T15:03:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T14:03:44","slug":"anyones-thumbprint-can-unlock-the-galaxy-s10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/anyones-thumbprint-can-unlock-the-galaxy-s10\/","title":{"rendered":"Anyone&#8217;s Thumbprint Can Unlock The Galaxy S10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Users have recently discovered that it&#8217;s possible to unlock Samsung S10&#8217;s using thumbprints not registered to the device.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Samsung has promised a software patch that would fix the problem. The issue was initially spotted by a woman whose husband was able to unlock her phone with his thumbprint just by adding a cheap screen protector.<\/p>\n<p>When the S10 was launched in March, Samsung described the fingerprint system as &#8220;revolutionary&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The scanner sends ultrasounds to detect 3D ridges of fingerprints in order to recognise users. Samsung said it was &#8220;aware of the case of S10&#8217;s malfunctioning fingerprint recognition and will soon issue a software patch&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/660\/cpsprodpb\/9A08\/production\/_105723493_b152bfde-e98e-420d-8ebf-106e6ad09a12.jpg\" alt=\"Fingerprint reader\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Galaxy S10.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The British couple, who discovered the security issue, told the Sun newspaper it was a &#8220;real concern&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>After buying a \u00a32.70 gel screen protector on eBay, Lisa Neilson found her left thumbprint, which was not registered, could unlock the phone.<\/p>\n<p>She then asked her husband to try and both his thumbs also unlocked it, and when the screen protector was added to another relative&#8217;s phone the same thing happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Users have recently discovered that it&#8217;s possible to unlock Samsung S10&#8217;s using thumbprints not registered to the device. Samsung has promised a software patch that would fix the problem. The issue was initially spotted by a woman whose husband was able to unlock her phone with his thumbprint just by adding a cheap screen protector&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":15502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[502,71,1735,168,1408,524,1713],"class_list":["post-15501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worldwide-news","tag-cyber-security","tag-news","tag-samsung","tag-tech","tag-tech-news","tag-technology","tag-technology-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15503,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15501\/revisions\/15503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}