Hackers can guess your PIN just using the motion sensor on your phone
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It’s not just your PIN, passwords too.
By Tom White and Thomas Tamblyn
So here’s some worrying news: hackers can actually find out your PIN and passwords just by analysing the way you tilt a phone in your hand.
The revelation comes from cyber experts at Newcastle University who say they’ve developed a technique which allows them to easily monitor the motion sensors on smartphones and tablets.
By detecting the movement of a device while the keyboard is being used the team say they were able to crack a four-digit PIN with 70% accuracy on the first guess and then with 100% accuracy by the fifth.
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