Galaxy S10 users should turn on some alternative security features as Samsung works to address a major flaw with the device\u2019s in-screen fingerprint sensor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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And all it took was a A$5 screen protector from eBay.<\/p>\n
UK resident Briton Lisa Neilson bought a plastic screen protector and after applying it to her Samsung Galaxy S10 found that literally anyone could unlock her phone with the fingerprint.<\/p>\n
It’s been suggested the screen protector creates an air-gap that the S10’s ultrasonic sensor is confused by, allowing the user to unlock the phone. Glass based protectors appear to not have the same issue.<\/p>\n
Samsung have released a series of statements saying that they’re \u201caware of the case of S10\u2019s malfunctioning fingerprint recognition and will soon issue a software patch.\u201d<\/p>\n
For the time being anyone using an S10 should be extremely wary of the potential security risk and as Samsung have suggested, disable fingerprint authentication until a fix is put in place.<\/p>\n
Seriously though, who at this point still thinks buying Samsung phones are a good idea?<\/p>\n
Source: Samsung confirms glaring S10 fingerprint reader flaw, promises fix | TechCrunch<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Galaxy S10 users should turn on some alternative security features as Samsung works to address a major flaw…\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[70,129,284,482],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9838,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9836\/revisions\/9838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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