{"id":36863,"date":"2019-10-20T03:34:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T19:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=36863"},"modified":"2019-10-20T03:34:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T19:34:52","slug":"samsung-responds-to-security-concerns-affecting-certain-galaxy-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2019\/10\/20\/samsung-responds-to-security-concerns-affecting-certain-galaxy-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung responds to security concerns affecting certain Galaxy devices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Samsung released a statement regarding recent reports of a fingerprint recognition issue affecting certain Galaxy devices.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This issue involved ultrasonic fingerprint sensors unlocking devices after recognizing 3-dimensional patterns appearing on certain silicone screen protecting cases as users\u2019 fingerprints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To prevent any further issues, Samsung advised that Galaxy Note10\/10+ and S10\/S10+\/S10 5G users who use such covers to: 1) remove the cover, 2) delete all previous fingerprints, and 3) newly register their fingerprints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;If you currently use front screen protective covers, to ensure optimum fingerprint scanning, please refrain from using this cover until your device has been updated with a new software patch,&#8221; the company stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A software update is planned to be released as early as next week, and once updated, &#8220;please be sure to scan your fingerprint in its entirety, so that the all portions of your fingerprint, including the center and corners have been fully scanned.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This issue involved ultrasonic fingerprint sensors unlocking devices after recognizing 3-dimensional patterns appearing on certain silicone screen protecting cases as users\u2019 fingerprints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":36864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,3],"tags":[3782,5052,359,326],"class_list":["post-36863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-phones","tag-gadgets","tag-mobile-phones","tag-samsung","tag-smartphones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}