SMARTPHONE camera and microphone has been adapted to steal PINs

Researchers from the University of Cambridge said what digital codes (eg , PIN- codes) are recruited on the smartphone screen, can be stolen by hackers using a camera and microphone device on Android. The method of "hacking" says the report, scientists, published on the website of the university.

For a successful theft requires that the microphone while dialing recorded the sound of blows your finger across the screen, and the front camera - filming the video. Recorded sounds are related to the video frames. It then examines how the placement of objects in each of the correlated frames. Scientists argue that based on this information, you can identify exactly which buttons to press on the keypad the user.

To prove that the technique works, the researchers created an application PIN Skimmer, which performs the above actions. After two attempts, the program correctly guessed 30 percent of the fifty-four digit code entered on the smartphone. After five attempts to correctly recognize the code share exceeded 50 percent.