It is a German beveiligingsonderzoeker managed to get the finger print scanner of the Galaxy S5 to be tricked by a dummy of his own fingerprint from wood glue to use. He used the same dummy as for Touch ID on the iPhone 5s to work.
The method works by a fingerprint, for example the back of a phone to take the picture, and that picture is a mold to make. With mold, can a malicious fingerprint reproduce on, for example, wood glue. By the dummy of wood glue on the own finger to explain, the researcher can the finger print scanner of the Galaxy S5 foppen, reports Heise.
The same method also worked on the iPhone 5s and is likely also useful for all other vingerafdrukscanners that are in use. Current vingerafdrukscanners lay the pattern with high precision, but have no way to check if there really is a finger on the scanner.
The method seems easy, but requires access to the necessary materials and most importantly, time. In addition, it will be difficult to have a fingerprint on the back of the Galaxy S5 to capture, as the researcher, but the iPhone 5s did. The back shows fingerprints less. The risk for a Galaxy S5 is potentially great, because users of the fingerprint also can use for transactions with PayPal. It is currently unknown how many people the fingerprint as a method of authentication to use for PayPal on the Galaxy S5; the phone rang last week in the sale.
