Feedly:Security News - Software vulnerabilities, data leaks, malware, viruses. New ways your smartwatch (and phone) may be spying on you

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A computer science Masters student Tony Beltramelli at the IT University of Copenhagen has demonstrated that software running on a smartwatch could be used to record a user's passwords and PINs. He managed this by using the smartwatch's motion sensors and analysing the patterns of data from the sensors when tapping a keypad to enter a PIN.