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Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Your smartwatch may be revealing your card’s PIN code

Wearable devices bring us a whole new world of technological innovation, yet at the same time, they come with security risks, as one software engineer and former master’s student has recently documented.
In his thesis paper, Tony Beltramelli elaborated on the security hazard, highlighting that attackers can extract sensitive data – including the likes of credit card and smartphone PIN codes – by simply monitoring motion sensors across various wearable devices.


Your smartwatch may be revealing your card’s PIN code

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