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Camera and microphone attack on smartphones

The researches at the University of Cambridge have published a paper titled “PIN Skimmer: Inferring PINs Through The Camera and Microphone” describing a new approach to recovering PIN codes entered on a mobile on-screen keyboard. We had seen applications use the accelerometer and gyroscope before to infer the buttons pressed. This time, they use the ...

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