Breaking News

CORSAIR Unveils Platinum-rated HXi SHIFT PSUs with iCUE LINK System Hub and PCIe 5.1 support Panasonic Announces Limited Drop of LUMIX S9 Titanium Gold Edition Models in Europe be quiet! raises the bar with the new Dark Power 14 power supply series be quiet! elevates compact cooling with Pure Rock Slim 3 Toshiba First in Industry to Verify 12-Disk Stacking Technology for Hard Drives

logo

  • Share Us
    • Facebook
    • Twitter
  • Home
  • Home
  • News
  • Reviews
  • Essays
  • Forum
  • Legacy
  • About
    • Submit News

    • Contact Us
    • Privacy

    • Promotion
    • Advertise

    • RSS Feed
    • Site Map

Search form

Finger Heat Traces Could Expose Your Smartphone's PIN

Finger Heat Traces Could Expose Your Smartphone's PIN

Smartphones Mar 10,2017 0

Researchers from the University of Stuttgart and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany have managed to identify secret codes in smartphones by tracking the heat traces left on the screen.

The researchers used a thermal-imaging camera to identify thermal images on a smartphone's screen, which reveal what parts of the screen were tapped, even after it is left untouched for 30 seconds. This alllowed them to "steal" PINs or patterns left behind by the smartphone's owner.

"PINs and patterns remain among the most widely used knowledge-based authentication schemes. As thermal cameras become ubiquitous and affordable, we foresee a new form of threat to user privacy on mobile devices," the researchers said.

Thermal cameras allow performing thermal attacks, where heat traces, resulting from authentication, can be used to reconstruct passwords.

The researchers said that while PINs remain vulnerable even with duplicate digits, overlapping patterns significantly decrease successful thermal attack rate.

If the thermal image is taken within 15 seconds of a PIN being entered, it is accurate nearly 90 percent of the time, they said.

Tags:
Previous Post
California To Allow Testing Of Robot Self-driving Cars
Next Post
Seagate To Focus On New SMR, TDMR And HAMR Hard Disk Technologies

Related Posts

Latest News

CORSAIR Unveils Platinum-rated HXi SHIFT PSUs with iCUE LINK System Hub and PCIe 5.1 support
PC components

CORSAIR Unveils Platinum-rated HXi SHIFT PSUs with iCUE LINK System Hub and PCIe 5.1 support

Panasonic Announces Limited Drop of LUMIX S9 Titanium Gold Edition Models in Europe
Cameras

Panasonic Announces Limited Drop of LUMIX S9 Titanium Gold Edition Models in Europe

be quiet! raises the bar with the new Dark Power 14 power supply series
PC components

be quiet! raises the bar with the new Dark Power 14 power supply series

be quiet! elevates compact cooling with Pure Rock Slim 3
Cooling Systems

be quiet! elevates compact cooling with Pure Rock Slim 3

Toshiba First in Industry to Verify 12-Disk Stacking Technology for Hard Drives
Enterprise & IT

Toshiba First in Industry to Verify 12-Disk Stacking Technology for Hard Drives

Popular Reviews

be quiet! Dark Mount Keyboard

be quiet! Dark Mount Keyboard

Terramaster F8-SSD

Terramaster F8-SSD

be quiet! Light Mount Keyboard

be quiet! Light Mount Keyboard

be quiet! Pure Base 501

be quiet! Pure Base 501

Soundpeats Pop Clip

Soundpeats Pop Clip

Akaso 360 Action camera

Akaso 360 Action camera

Dragon Touch Digital Calendar

Dragon Touch Digital Calendar

Noctua NF-A12x25 G2 fans

Noctua NF-A12x25 G2 fans

Main menu

  • Home
  • News
  • Reviews
  • Essays
  • Forum
  • Legacy
  • About
    • Submit News

    • Contact Us
    • Privacy

    • Promotion
    • Advertise

    • RSS Feed
    • Site Map
  • About
  • Privacy
  • Contact Us
  • Promotional Opportunities @ CdrInfo.com
  • Advertise on out site
  • Submit your News to our site
  • RSS Feed