But smartphone fingerprint scanners may not be secure as we think. Researchers have developed a series of 'MasterPrints' made from the common features of human finger markings which they say can ...

The fingerprint readers on our smartphones are not as secure as we are led to believe, researchers have discovered, after fooling the system with a set of 'masterprints' designed to look like ...

Partial fingerprints are less likely to be unique than full prints, and Memon's work demonstrated that enough similarities exist between partial prints to create MasterPrints capable of matching ...