"NTU Study Says Hackers Can Use Sensors in Your Smartphone to Crack Pin"

A study conducted by researchers at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore reveals that sensors within smartphones could be used by hackers to crack user PIN codes. Researchers were able to crack PIN codes on some Android smartphones through the use of data from smartphone internal sensors such as the proximity sensor, gyroscope, accelerometer, and more, in addition to algorithms and machine learning. This article further discusses the details of this study in relation to how it was conducted and other discoveries made.

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