The following is an excerpt from the July 11 issue of . Murtuza Jadliwala, assistant professor in the 麻豆传媒 College of Engineering, and Anindya Maiti, a 麻豆传媒 student, contributed to the article. (Subscription may be required to view full story.)
Murtuza Jadliwala researches ethics, trust, privacy, security and computer technology at 麻豆传媒鈥檚 College of Engineering.
He just completed a semester of testing involving a dozen students at 麻豆传媒 wearing smartwatches.
He found that the sensors in smartwatches could be used by hackers to steal information about bank accounts and passcodes.
鈥淲e think that in using very simple tricks, some hackers can be able to infer what numbers some smartwatch users are typing on their numeric keypads, including PIN codes and other numbers,鈥� he said.
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He will present his findings at the 19th International Symposium on Wearable Computers in September in Osaka, Japan.
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