Your fingerprint is a more valuable security resource than your password—you can change a password, after all. So it’s worrying to hear that Samsung’s Galaxy S5 contains a vulnerability that could leave your fingerprint wide open for hackers to clone.
Forbes reports that security researchers at FireEye have found that the Samsung’s Galaxy S5—and some “other unnamed Android devices”—fail to properly protect your fingerprint. Prints are held in an encrypted file on the phone, but FireEye researchers claim it can be intercepted before it arrives there, allowing it to be cloned and used for future attacks.
