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Heat left by users’ fingertips could help hackers crack passwords, researchers claim

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Boffins at the University of Glasgow, in Scotland, have developed a system which they claim demonstrates a new type of cybersecurity threat: a “thermal attack.”

According to the researchers, the falling price of heat-detecting thermal imaging cameras and advances in machine learning have made it more feasible to guess what passwords a target may have entered on a keyboard, up to a minute after typing them.

Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.Leer másGraham Cluley

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