Mouse-Box — An Entire Computer inside a Mouse

Smartphones in our pockets are exponentially smaller and more powerful that they don't realize the need to carry laptops with us everywhere. Now imagine if a small mouse meets the need of the entire PC? Not just imagination, it has been proved and done by the engineers at a Polish startup...

Researchers: Accelerometers Perfect for Pervasive Tracking

Minute manufacturing imperfections in popular accelerometers cause that hardware to emit uniquely identifiable data that could give third parties the ability to single out specific mobile devices, regardless of any privacy protections deployed on them. In a paper published by the University of...

When, Not Whether, Is the Question for Mobile Authentication, Research Finds

The findings from a recent study carried out by Microsoft Research and the University of South Carolina suggest that we should be asking ourselves when to require authentication rather than whether to require authentication. The research puts forth the idea of tailoring authentication requirement...

TapLogger Android Trojan can Determine Tapped Keys

TapLogger Android Trojan cab Determine Tapped Keys Today's smartphones are shipp ed with various embedded motion sensors, such as the accelerometer, gyroscope, and orientation sensors. These motion sensors are useful in supporting the mobile UI innovation and motion-based commands. However, they...

iPhone can be used as spy phone to get desktop Keystrokes

iPhone can be used as spy phone to get desktop Keystrokes What if a hacker could log every key you typed on your PC by placing a cellphone nearby? US researchers have shown how this is possible using any smartphone available today. At a conference in Chicago on Thursday, a group of computer...

iPhone can be used as spy phone to get desktop Keystrokes

iPhone can be used as spy phone to get desktop Keystrokes What if a hacker could log every key you typed on your PC by placing a cellphone nearby? US researchers have shown how this is possible using any smartphone available today. At a conference in Chicago on Thursday, a group of computer...

New Research Shows Possibility of Using an iPhone as a Keylogger

Researchers from MIT and Georgia Tech have developed a new technique that enables them to use the accelerometer in an iPhone or other smartphone to capture keystrokes from a nearby PC and decipher the typed words with about 80 percent accuracy. The tactic, while quite complicated, could be used t...