This thermal attack can read your password from the heat your fingertips leave behind

Researchers describe an attack approach that combines thermal imaging and artificial intelligence � and warn that greater access to breakthrough technology will be misused by cyber criminals.�Researchers in computer security claim to have created an AI-powered system that can guess computer and smartphone passwords in seconds by analysing the heat signatures left on keyboards and displays while inputting data. ThermoSecure is a system developed by researchers at the University of Glasgow’s School of Computing Science to demonstrate how the decreasing cost of thermal-imaging cameras and increased access to machine-learning and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms are opening up new opportunities for what they call thermal attacks. Read More…