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German researchers hack Galaxy S5 fingerprint login

2014-04-16 15:53:02| InfoWorld: Top News

It took just four days for German researchers to trick the Samsung Galaxy S5's fingerprint scanner into accepting a mold of a fingerprint instead of a real finger. Despite fingerprint authentication being one of the headline features on Samsung's new flagship model, the company's implementation of it "leaves much to be desired," SRLabs said in a video demonstration of the hack posted on Youtube.

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April Schools' Day: School Canceled Thanks to IT System Hack

2014-04-01 21:38:19| TechNewsWorld

Well, an A for creativity. In Australia, someone penetrated a high school's IT system and penned text messages and emails to parents saying that the school had been badly damaged by a fire and was not fit for students. There was no truth to the message, however -- just a bit of April Fools' Day shenanigans. An unknown person apparently wiggled into the school's IT systems Tuesday morning.

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Teslas Model S can be located, unlocked, and burglarized with a simple hack

2014-04-01 14:55:51| Extremetech

While Tesla's Model S might be physically the safest car on the road, once it's parked up by the curb, it's not very secure at all. That's according to a security researcher, who says the Model S is very vulnerable to some rudimentary hacking techniques, allowing a would-be thief to remotely locate your car, unlock its doors, and then steal all your stuff. Fortunately, the researcher hasn't yet found a way of starting a Model S without the key fob, but given how security always eventually falls to hackers, it's just a matter of time.

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