![]() Smartphone cameras, even front-facing ones, are now high-resolution enough that such an attack is possible. One way, demonstrated on stage, is to read what they’re typing by analysing photographs of the reflections in their eyes. How to go from there to stealing all their passwords? A hacker may have access to a user’s phone camera, but not anything else. ![]() “After this talk, politicians will presumably wear gloves when talking in public,” he joked.Īlso reported at the conference was another security hole seemingly straight out of science-fiction: a so-called “corneal keylogger”. Jan Krissler, known in hacker circles as Starbug, used commercial software called VeriFinger and several close-range photos of von der Leyen, including one gleaned from a press release issued by her own office and another he took himself from three meters away, to reverse-engineer the fingerprint. German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen Photograph: Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters
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