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Problem fingerprint sensor, Android losing safe from iPhone

In the annual hacker conference, Black Hat Security, which has just held, revealed when it is in terms of security, Android still lags behind Apple. And the most crushing is about fingerprint sensor.

Nowadays, many emerging start-smartphone smartphone or international Chinese brand that carries the fingerprint sensor as plus points. However, according to hackers at Black Hat, a fingerprint sensor security in vulnerable burglarized Android OS.

Unfortunately, the vulnerability was made a payment system on Android smartphones are vulnerable to hacker attacks. Currently, features a fingerprint sensor is plural is used for the password when performing online transactions via mobile gadget.

Online security experts at the Black Hat conference, Tao Wei and Zhang Yulong, was trying to demonstrate the action of hacking fingerprint sensor so on Android smartphones. As a result, they could steal fingerprint data that can be used to penetrate the security technology.

As reported by Phone Arena (06/08), two smartphones that fingerprint sensors could be penetrated hacker is HTC One Max and Galaxy S5.

On the other hand, piercing action fingerprint sensor can not be done on the iPhone. Fingerprint sensor iPhone, iTouch, turns out to have a layered security system.

Although hackers can break into iTouch, they will not be able to get the fingerprint data users because the data was stored separately and has its own password.

Seeing the danger of the vulnerability of fingerprint sensors on Android, security experts said that if the Android gadget users must frequently update the software provided by the vendor of smartphones. Therefore, many vendors have been trying to fix this problem and issue a patch update it.