"TechRepublic" declare : Samsung Galaxy S8 iris scanner easily fooled by hackers

Image: Jason Cipriani/CNETThe Samsung Galaxy S8's iris scanner, which unlocks the phone by scanner a user's eyes, can be easily fooled by hackers, the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) wrote in a blog post on Monday. So a public social media profile could compromise a Samsung Galaxy S8 user if they were to lose their phone. SEE: Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus: The smart person's guide"Iris recognition may be barely sufficient to protect a phone against complete strangers unlocking it," the post said. The iris scanner wasn't the only biometric security measure the CCC team was able to bypass. The iris scanner works with infrared light, so a picture is taken of the user's face using a digital camera in night mode.


referring to "By far most expensive part of the iris biometry hack was the purchase of the Galaxy S8 smartphone," the hackers said. The ill-fated Note 7 also had the same infrared iris scanner as the Galaxy S8. New phone's feature has been bypassed less than a month after it was shipped to public, adding fuel to debate about biometric securityThe iris-recognition feature in Samsung's new Galaxy S8 smartphone has been defeated by German hackers, less than a month after it hit shelves around the world. CCC is the same group that first fooled Apple's TouchID fingerprint sensors, just weeks after the first iphone 5s hit the market. A video posted by the Chaos Computer Club, a long-running hacker collective formed in Berlin in 1981, shows the security feature being fooled by a dummy eye into thinking that it is being unlocked by a legitimate owner.


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Hackers trick iris scanner to unlock Samsung Galaxy S8

Open sesame, unlock phone, unlock Samsung Pay. pic.twitter.com/t2u87Fzi25 — Samsung Pay (@SamsungPay) May 17, 2017The Galaxy S8 uses iris recognition technology by identity management firm Princeton Identity. So we made the Galaxy S8 and S8+ our securest phones yet. The CCC noted that rumor has it Apple will take a page from Samsung by having iris recognition unlock the next-generation of iphone. Not only can the iris authentication system be broken to unlock an S8, the same trick could allow an attacker to access the victim's mobile wallet.