Hackers can figure out passwords just from the sound of typing

  • 19 August 2019
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'I think smartphone makers are going to have to go back to the drawing board,' a security researcher warns


August 19, 2019 By Anthony Cuthbertson

Hackers can figure out a person’s password by simply listening to them type on a keyboard, cyber security according to a new study.

Using the microphone found on a smartphone, the new method is so effective that it can be carried out in a noisy public space where multiple people are typing, researchers at Southern Methodist University in Texas found.

They discovered the technique by analysing the different sound waves produced when a key on a keyboard is struck.

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