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Your Phone's Camera and Microphone Can Reveal Your PIN

 
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 14, 2013 1:37 pm    Post subject: Your Phone's Camera and Microphone Can Reveal Your PIN Reply with quote
Cambridge security researchers have been hacking smartphone passwords using the devices' own cameras and microphones. Laurent Simon and Ross Anderson at the University of Cambridge used an app they called "PIN Skimmer" to capture passwords as they were entered into a Samsung Galaxy S3 and a Google Nexus S, both of which use n...read more
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