The iris scanner debuted on Samsung flagship handsets a few years ago with the Galaxy Note 7, and every Galaxy S and Note model that followed had one as well. But the Note 9 may be the last high-end ...

When security systems rely on our unique human characteristics—like our fingerprints and eyeballs—techniques for circumventing those systems can be far more macabre than just guessing a password. If ...

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 ...

Samsung's Galaxy S8 is a fantastic Android phone by just about any measure, but if there's one area where the new flagship could use some serious work it's in the biometric department. We already knew ...

Encore Data Products has introduced a new offering in its suite of technology solutions after a show at the ISTELive25 Conference in San Antonio, Texas during the summer of 2025. The company featured ...

A German hacker group called the Chaos Computer Club released a video that makes it seem quite easy to fool the Samsung Galaxy S8's iris scanner. The CCC says it was able to use everyday items like a ...

Screens that scan your eyes, machines that read images of your hands or face, computers you access with your fingerprint instead of a user name and password -- these were once the stuff of science ...

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 ...

Hackers have broken the iris-based authentication in Samsung’s Galaxy S8 smartphone in an easy-to-execute attack that’s at odds with the manufacturer’s claim that the mechanism is “one of the safest ...

A photo of a person's eye taken at a medium distance is more than enough to trick a Samsung Galaxy S8 smartphone, according to researchers from the Chaos Computer Club (CCC). Samsung added the iris ...

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