Apple's iPhone 5S comes with the most awaited technology known as Fingerprint Scanner for biometric scanning of thumb impressions to open the lock of screen. However a video uploaded on YouTube by a security researcher group explain in an easy way about how to bypass the screenlock with the help of Siri without touching the phone or opening its lock manually. The lock which is protected by a fingerprint code can be opened with the help of Siri in its latest iOS 7.1.1 update.
The video will explain about every step clearly that how Siri will tell you to open contact list, make a phone call, send a text message, all without even unlocking the device. Siri will easily let you bypass the fingerprint scanner/Touch id or 4-digit Screen lock to call someone on hour contact list. But if you ask Siri to show you the contact list then she will definitely ask you to open the code first and then after it wilk make u able to access the contact list.
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Apple is yet to respond this security flaw but it had already rolled out updates to fix this bug and not let siri give control to device without opening it. Sherif Hashim is the man who found this bug and when we contacted him, he explained to us some ways by implementing which one can prevent letting others accessing their personal device. He suggested that users should disable Siri from the lockscreen making it un access the lockscreen. This bug also affects all the devices running iOS 7.1.1 but it is not cleared that how much it had harmed the devices.
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Apple's iOS 7.1.1 update was released a month ago and till now security researchers had already founded many bugs in the system, even a group from Russia had also hacked the iPhone's biometric fingerprint scanner that makes users think again that is this the same apple that believes to make world more interconnected to themselves?
While contacted to Apple, they stated that they are already aware of this bug and fixes to the said will be rolled out soon meanwhile user can make some changes and let siri control only some applications and soon an update will be rolled out and the bug will be fixed.
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