Google Glass wearers can steal your password
 

Remember the kid who tried to cheat off you by looking over your shoulder to copy your test answers? He's baaaack.
But this time he's wearing Google Glass -- and he's after your iPad PIN.

Cyber forensics experts at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell have developed a way to steal passwords entered on a smartphone or tablet using video from Google's face-mounted gadget and other video-capturing devices. The thief can be nearly ten feet away and doesn't even need to be able to read the screen -- meaning glare is not an antidote.
The security researchers created software that maps the shadows from fingertips typing on a tablet or smartphone. Their algorithm then converts those touch points into the actual keys they were touching, enabling the researchers to crack the passcode.
They tested the algorithm on passwords entered on an Apple (AAPL, Tech30) iPad, Google's (GOOGL, Tech30) Nexus 7 tablet, and an iPhone 5.

The software can be applied to video taken on a variety of devices: Fu and his team experimented with Google Glass, cell phone video, a webcam and a camcorder. The software worked on camcorder video taken at a distance of over 140 feet.
Of course, pointing a camcorder in a stranger's face might yield some suspicion. The rise of wearable technology is what makes this approach actually viable. For example, a smartwatch could stealthily record a target typing on his phone at a coffee shop without drawing much attention.



http://money.cnn.com/2014/07/07/tech...ack/index.html

http://money.cnn.com/video/technolog...nnmoney?iid=EL

So, someone can get your PIN if they look at your screen?

HOLY FUCKING SHIT!

Come on dude don't be a dick. Please read before commenting. They can get your password from across the room.

"The thief can be nearly ten feet away "

WOW!

TEN WHOLE FEET!

I promise if you were 10 feet away from me and entered a PIN I could tell you what it was with no need for Glass or 'special' software.

And it's just for a PIN, not a password.

WOWZER!

You can actually hear sounds made in a room from the vibrations on the window glass. Look for defenses next. I remember in the 90s there were lots of stories in NYC about people who used binoculars to get pins, etc. I'm guessing fairly soon you'll see an additional layer of security added to those transactions.

He's not being a dick, it's terrible news reporting. The article is saying "People with video cameras can record you typing in your pin and the then later watch the video to figure out your pin". No shit... The story has nothing to do with google glass, they just threw that in there as the medium for video recording to make a very old and non-news-worthy story have traction. It's the same story from back in the early 2000's when people were freaking out that others could record them putting in their pin at an atm.

Secure Messaging App Wickr Raises $30 Million Series B

Self-destructing and encrypted messaging app Wickr raised $30 million in Series B funding, the company is announcing today, in a round led by Jim Breyer, founder and CEO of Breyer Capital, with participation from CME Group and Wargaming. Breyer will now join the company?s board. The new round comes on the heels of Wickr?s $9 million Series A announced earlier this year.

The app was created by CEO Nico Sell, also longtime organizer of the DEF CON security conference, as a tool that allows senders and receivers to communicate privately. Only the receiver is able to decrypt the message after it?s sent, as the company itself does not hold the decryption keys.

Security and privacy are popular topics in this post-Snowden era, where a backlash against mainstream social services is finding new footing with those of a younger generation, as well as those wanting to protect themselves from overzealous ad-targeting or even in some cases, totalitarian government regimes.

Wickr also resells its technology to other messaging apps that want to include a more private and secure component to their service. Meanwhile, the company?s new strategic investors Wargaming and CME Group see Wickr?s potential in their own industries, gaming and financial services, respectively.

Eipstudios promotes the new world order, he wants you to use biometry to be able to monitor everything from your life

Stalker Alert!!!!!! Stalker Alert!!!! Stranger Danger!!!!! Pornmasta

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this is crazy.

Did you know the person standing next to you at the register in the grocery store can watch you enter your pin on the card machine? No camera required. Oh no!! :1orglaugh

eipstudio, stop to slander me, also i didn't read your shit.

Not exactly just looking over your shoulder.

You didn't read the article.

In other words, they don't need to see the screen you are tapping on or even your fingers - just the shadow of your fingers can be enough.

WHATEVER WHO CARES STEAL EVERYTHING TECHNOLOGY IS COOL BIG BROTHER RULES WHO CARES WOOHOO!

Fucktards unite.

I am not going to get close to anyone wearing Google glasses.

You didn't think. From 10 feet away, with a view of a numerical keypad if you can't work out what someone is typing in you're blind or stupid.

This is a press release, not at article. Bless you.

Whoever stole eipstudios' brain, please give it back.