Saturday 24 October 2015

Hacker can get cell phone passwords from selfies

Hackers can get your cell phone passcode simply by looking at your selfies.

A member of a German group called Chaos Computer Club, identified only as “Starbug,” showed a cyber security conference audience how to look at fingerprints on a smartphone when the phone’s screen is reflected in the eyeballs of someone taking a selfie.

Fingerprints can be recreated from the reflection, and the pattern in which they are most often used (the passcode to unlock the user’s phone) can be quickly determined, Starbug said. For the full article click here 



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