New Hacking Threats: Fingerprint Reader Vulnerabilities and Sophisticated Ransomware

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Researchers for New York University’s (N.Y.U.) Tandon School of Engineering discovered masterprints, digitally altered fingerprints that could match many people’s fingers…”If I have this glove or fake hand with these master prints on it then I can unlock say 25, 30, 40 percent of phones,” Professor Nasir Memon of N.Y.U. Tandon said.