{"id":154536,"date":"2016-02-09T12:21:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T10:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=154536"},"modified":"2016-02-09T12:24:03","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T10:24:03","slug":"1password-android-app-gets-fingerprint-unlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/154536-1password-android-app-gets-fingerprint-unlock.html","title":{"rendered":"1Password Android app gets fingerprint unlock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1Password recently pushed out an update for its Android application, updating its design and introducing a number of new features, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/2\/8\/10943336\/1password-android-update-fingerprint-unlock-material-design\">The Verge reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Sporting a new Material Design Style, the updated app now includes fingerprint scanner\u00a0compatibility.<\/p>\n<p>It requires fingerprint scanner support from Android 6.0 Marshmallow, so only newer devices will be able to benefit from the feature.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to fingerprint support, the app also added the ability to share passwords with teams.<\/p>\n<p>LastPass, a competitor to 1Password, first\u00a0supported fingerprint authentication on Android with the\u00a0Samsung Galaxy S5 in 2014.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More on password managers<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/152211-lastpass-vulnerable-to-simple-phishing-attack.html\"><strong>LastPass vulnerable to simple phishing attack<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/129394-lastpass-hacked-you-need-to-change-your-master-password.html\"><strong>LastPass hacked \u2013 you need to change your master password<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/137066-this-is-what-your-password-should-look-like.html\"><strong>This is what your password should look like<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Password management service 1Password has released an update for its Android app, which includes fingerprint unlock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":124874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,17934],"tags":[22779,36,22994],"class_list":["post-154536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","category-smartphones","tag-1password","tag-active","tag-password-managers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154572,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154536\/revisions\/154572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}