The new iPhone fingerprint sensor is a nice piece of technology, but what is Apple's contingency plan when it gets hacked? One might easily imagine lifting fingerprints from say, a beer mug, and then ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Hackers are gearing up for Friday's iPhone 5S release with a contest to crack the device's first-ever fingerprint scanner, a high-tech feature that Apple Inc says makes users' data ...

Well, that didn’t last long. Less than 48 hours after Apple began selling its new iPhone 5s with the Touch ID fingerprint security system, someone’s managed to find a way around it. A member of the ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - A group of German hackers claimed to have cracked the iPhone fingerprint scanner on Sunday, just two days after Apple Inc launched the technology that it promises will better ...

One of the newest security features on the iPhone is not all that safe. It took German hackers about 24 hours to figure out a way to trick the new fingerprint scan technology on the iPhone 5S. While ...

Two days after Apple launched the iPhone 5S to great fanfare, German hackers have sucked the air out of the room with their claim that the fingerprint-activated lock has been cracked. The Chaos ...

The iPhone 5S was released to the general public on Friday. Little more than 48 hours later, a group of hackers found a way to bypass the device's fingerprint-based security system that doesn't ...

Your iPhone knows who you call. It knows where you are. And in the newest versions, it will know your thumbprint. Given revelations about how the NSA can access Apple ...

Fellow Fool Chris Neiger recently penned a very interesting article discussing InvenSense's new fingerprint scanning technology and the potential for Apple to adopt it. Just to recap, InvenSense's new ...

A U.S. lawmaker wants to know whether the Touch ID fingerprint reader in Apple’s iPhone 5S has adequate controls to protect the personal data of users. In a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, Sen. Al ...