Your phone’s biggest vulnerability is your fingerprint
May 3, 2016 | Russell Brandom from The VergeCan we still use fingerprint logins in the age of mass biometric databases? In five minutes, a single person faked a fingerprint and broke into my phone. It was simple, a trick the biometrics firm Vkansee has been playing at trade shows for months now. All it took was some dental mold to take a […]
This Guy Unlocked My iPhone With Play-Doh
April 25, 2016 | Jeff John Roberts from FortuneThe Play-Doh hack is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to spoofing fingerprints. Remember the fuss about the FBI breaking into an iPhone? Well, it turns out that hacking into a phone isn’t so hard after all. You can even do it by “spoofing” someone’s fingerprint with ordinary children’s Play-Doh. As you […]
Fingerprint Startup for FinTech Opens NYC Offices
August 11, 2015
The more banking goes mobile, the bigger the honey pot to hackers looking for an easy payday. Recognizing the exploding FinTech ecosystem in New York City — and the need to protect that technology — one Chinese startup today announces the opening of its new Lower East Side offices, designed to make mobile banking safer. […]
Mobile Banking Still Harbors Some Dangers, But Is It Safe Overall?
July 16, 2015 | Brian O'Connell
Mobile banking users may not know this, but 40% of mobile banking application developers “aren’t taking the right precautions” to protect end users from fraud and data breaches, according to a recent study by IBM. That’s not all. The same study states that only 6% of total mobile app development is spent on security. “That’s […]
Vkansee Demonstrates Fake Fingerprint Hack on Leading Mobile Devices
July 15, 2015 | Mike Dautnerhttps://vimeo.com/133182457 Vkansee has made it abundantly clear that current fingeprint biometric technology for our devices isn’t yet up to snuff. It has been recorded in the Bank of America Consumer Mobility Report that nearly 51 percent of Americans said that mobile or online banking is their preferred method of daily banking. With this in mind, […]
Seen at 11: Your Body Could Soon Replace Your Passwords
July 8, 2015 | CBS New York
Passwords to electronics such as iPhones and tablets could soon be a thing of the past. Fingerprints or iris scans to access computers are said to be easier to use and much more secure. But even as technology improves, so do opportunities for hackers. For example, the creation of a synthetic fingerprint – and just […]
Vkansee Brings Optical Fingerprint Scanning To Mobile
March 16, 2015 | Matt Hummock from Tom's HardwareOptical fingerprint scanners are regularly used in high-traffic areas such as border crossings or fitness clubs to verify membership. The rugged but bulky construction of optical scanners are well suited to these applications, but not for razer-thin mobile devices, where capacitive sensors are currently used due to their low cost and compact size. The exclusivity […]
Best Security: Qualcomm Sense ID & Vkansee Fingerprint Scanner – Mobile World Congress 2015 Awards
March 13, 2015 | Seth Colaner, Matt Humrick & Alex Davies from Tom's HardwareSecurity was an important topic again this year at MWC. With apps for encrypting messages, to virtual machines for sandboxing apps, to encrypted phones claiming to be unhackable, it was difficult to put our finger on just a single solution. So instead, we chose two different fingerprint scanners that overcome the limitations of current capacitive […]
UTFiS Sensor Released at CES
January 7, 2015Vkansee formally released UTFIS, an ultra-thin optical fingerprint sensor, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on January 6, 2015. It attracted device-manufacturers’ attention at first sight. UTFIS uses advanced pinhole imaging techniques to take a high-resolution image that requires neither a lens system nor a prism for reflecting the light. They have applied […]
VKANSEE Grabs $7 Million in Funding
December 23, 2014 | VentureBeatHealth analytics startup Ginger.io raises $20M Ginger.io, a startup whose technology collects behavioral data from patients’ smartphones to provide their healthcare providers with insights, appears to have raised a fresh $20 million in new funding according to a filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The company previously raised$6.5 million in funding in 2012. […]