An international group of researchers have presented a successful
method to show how hackers could use a relatively cheap piece of
equipment and software to gain access to secrets inside your mind.
Presented earlier this month at the USENIX Security Symposium, “On the Feasibility of Side-Channel Attacks With Brain-Computer Interfaces”
discusses how with the emergence of technology that allows users to
communicate via their thoughts alone, software could be developed to spy
on things like your pin number or other passwords.
“The security risks involved in using consumer-grade BCI devices have
never been studied and the impact of malicious software with access to
the device is unexplored,” the researchers abstract reads. “We take a
first step in studying the security implications of such devices and
demonstrate that this upcoming technology could be turned against users
to reveal their private and secret information. We use inexpensive
electroencephalography (EEG) based BCI devices to test the feasibility
of simple, yet effective, attacks.”
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