Hi, I'm Matt Steiner. [Narrator] Matt is a senior crime scene analyst. He explained how crimes scenes worked in technique critique. So in this case, he uses deductive reasoning to come up with the ...

Overlapping and weak fingerprints pose challenges in criminal cases. A new study offers a solution and brings hope for using chemical residues in fingerprints for personal profiling. A groundbreaking ...

In the fictions of Mark Twain and CSI and more, the identification of fingerprints is one of the most well-known methods for solving crimes. In real life, collecting fingerprints left on a window or ...

So much for a key component of criminal forensics. “New research … outlined new ways to attack Android devices to extract user fingerprints,” ZDNet reports. “The threat is for now confined mostly to ...

At a demonstration in China, a team of hackers working with Tencent used an unorthodox method to unlock a stranger’s smartphone (via South China Morning Post). The team was able to trick the ...