Smartphones and tablets are filled with personal information, and the only barrier between the public and your data is a skimpy four-digit passcode. While enabling complex passwords and limiting the ...

Apple's rumoured fingerprint scanner for the iPhone 5S is a reality. Called the Touch ID sensor, the feature is acts to bring new levels of security to your iPhone. > iPhone 5C pictures and hands-on: ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The fingerprint reader on Apple Inc's top-end iPhone 5S received an early thumbs up for ease of use from two influential reviewers, helping dispel concerns about the scanning ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Hackers are gearing up for Friday's iPhone 5S release with a contest to crack the device's first-ever fingerprint scanner, a high-tech feature that Apple Inc says makes users' data ...

Well, that didn’t last long. Less than 48 hours after Apple began selling its new iPhone 5s with the Touch ID fingerprint security system, someone’s managed to find a way around it. A member of the ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. The new iPhone 5s' fingerprint scanner is being criticized ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - A group of German hackers claimed to have cracked the iPhone fingerprint scanner on Sunday, just two days after Apple Inc launched the technology that it promises will better ...

Rumours that the next iPhone will feature a fingerprint scanner appear to have been confirmed by code in the latest iOS 7 beta. A file called "BiometricKitUI" features text describing the new feature.