Should You Be Worried About Smartwatches And Smartphones Spying On You?

A computer science Masters student Tony Beltramelli at the IT University of Copenhagen has demonstrated that software running on a smartwatch could be used to record a user’s passwords and PINs. He managed this by using the smartwatch’s motion sensors and analysing the patterns of data from the sensors when tapping a keypad to enter a PIN. Should you be worried about this? We take a deeper look at how Beltramelli did this and whether his methods can be exploited by attackers. More »

   

 

 

from Lifehacker Australia (Australian Stories) http://bit.ly/1mAzDRg