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Tech Times: “Hackers can steal your data by recording keystroke sounds over Skype” (Tsudik quoted)

November 4, 2016

Skype calls carry an unseen, but crystal-clear danger of leaking your passwords to hackers, say researchers at the University of California, Irvine and in Italy.

We have all been in the scenario where we Skype and our interlocutor types loudly on the keyboard, and it looks like this can be a serious security breach.

Gene Tsudik, professor of computer science at UCI, explains that he had this revelation more than a year ago while participating in a Skype conference.

Read the full story at Tech Times.

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