Major Galaxy S10/Note 10 fingerprint flaw will be fixed with software update

Concluding updated: October 17th, 2019 at 10:30 UTC+01:00

Samsung will prepare the recently discovered fingerprint vulnerability on the Galaxy S10 and Galaxy Annotation 10 series with a software update. For those who missed it, it was recently reported that sure silicone gel cases, when installed on a Galaxy S10, can let anyone to access the phone using the fingerprint scanner even when their fingerprints aren't registered on the device. Some silicone cases cover the entire telephone, and the effect stems from the dotted pattern on some of those cases.

Ultrasonic sensors piece of work past transmitting high-frequency ultrasonic audio waves at the user's finger and matching the details of your fingerprint against the fingerprint stored on the device based on how the sound waves are reflected back. When a user registers their fingerprint witha silicone example on, the fingerprint reader isn't able to read the finger's ridges and pores as much as information technology reads the dotted pattern on the example, finer making the dotted pattern the saved fingerprint and granting anybody access when they printing down on the fingerprint reader.

Exactly how the software update volition set this trouble is unclear, simply until the update comes out, Samsung suggests that everyone employ the company's official screen protectors. Plastic screen protectors work best with the ultrasonic fingerprint sensor on Samsung's flagship phones, equally thicker screen protectors make it harder for the sensor to discover fingerprints considering of the gap they create between the display and the user'southward finger. Some liquid adhesive-based glass protectors overcome that limitation, but Samsung is unwilling to put its seal of approval on whatever just its own screen protectors.

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