Security News > 2016 > November > Researchers reveal WiFi-based mobile password discovery attack (Help Net Security)
2016-11-14 19:28
A group of researchers has come up with WindTalker, a new attack method for discovering users’ passwords and PINs as they enter them into their smartphones. WindTalker is the name of the attack, and the name of the keystroke inference framework that allows an attacker to perform it. “WindTalker is motivated from the observation that keystrokes on mobile devices will lead to different hand coverage and the finger motions, which will introduce a unique interference … More →
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