Security News > 2019 > August > Researchers were able to detect what is typed using just a smartphone

You likely know to avoid suspicious emails to keep hackers from gleaning personal information from your computer. But a new study from SMU (Southern Methodist University) suggests that it’s possible to access your information in a much subtler way: by using a nearby smartphone to intercept the sound of your typing. Eric Larson and Mitch Thornton Researchers from SMU’s Darwin Deason Institute for Cybersecurity found that acoustic signals, or sound waves, produced when we type … More → The post Researchers were able to detect what is typed using just a smartphone appeared first on Help Net Security.

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