How you held your phone you use it can give hackers chance to steal your phone number or 'pin number', according to the research con...
How you held your phone you use it can give hackers chance to steal your phone number or 'pin number', according to the research conducted.Experts at the University of Newcastle analyzed how they kept their phones while they were putting their number of mystery and say they can identify correctly 70 percent all numbers hidden with four digits after trying once and for 100 percent after trying five times .
Those experts say the technology issues of technology companies knows this problem but do not know what they will do.
Dkt. Maryam Mehrnezhad from school to the university's computer science, said: "Most calls a kind of 'smartphones' and 'tablets' are sensing
But since many websites and mobile apps do not ask permission before using program these, it is very easy for malicious software to get data. "
Dr. Mehrnezhad says: "If you create pages on some websites that have these bad software using your phone, and open another site, the first has the ability to copy all the personal information you provide.
No technology company ever software solutions to the problem
No technology company ever try to find solution of this kind of malicious software
"And the worst thing is that if you do not shut these pages, these programs can spy even if the phone number set pass code.
People are busy with a camera and software that shows maps, GPS than the sensing.
Experts have discovered that all you have to do is be in the phone call, write messages or find something leads one to keep the phone in a unique way.
So on the site known, they may know someone has opened what and to what he wrote, according to how he held his phone.
They have described all the major technology companies like Google and Apple about this risk, but no one can provide a solution to the present.
source BBC swahili
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