web analytics

Brainwave-Reading Headsets Could Help Hackers Guess Your Passwords

Here we go again, the release to the general public of a product before the security has been strengthened.

 

Scientists are urging programmers to strengthen security in brain-computer interfaces while there’s still time.

 

By Sophie Weiner
 
                            
 

Epoc+ is an $800 headset made by Emotiv that uses your brain’s EEG signals to control gadgets or computers. Now, a new study from Nitesh Saxena, an associate professor at the University of Alabama, has shown the headset could also be used to guess your passwords and PINs.

 

“I would say it’s a risk for today’s devices, and with more advanced devices much more could be done in future,” Saxena told MIT Technology Review. “People need to think though the privacy and security models of these interfaces.”

 

Full Article

Take a look at the best antivirus, anti-malware, anti-spy, etc. software

Powered by WPeMatico