{"id":58631,"date":"2012-08-31T11:27:58","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T09:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=58631"},"modified":"2012-08-31T11:32:13","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T09:32:13","slug":"hacking-brainwaves-now-a-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/58631-hacking-brainwaves-now-a-reality.html","title":{"rendered":"Hacking brainwaves now a reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong>Researchers from the University of Oxford, Berkeley, and the University of Geneva, have found that brainwaves can be monitored to deduce critical information.<\/p>\n<p>Using a popular consumer-grade EEG headset, the researchers were able to work out digits of PIN numbers, birth months, areas of residence and other personal information.<\/p>\n<p>They did this by presenting 30 headset-wearing subjects with images of ATM machines, debit cards, maps, people, and random numbers in a series of experiments.<\/p>\n<p>To detect the first digit of the PIN, researchers presented the subjects with numbers from 0 to 9, flashing on the screen in random order, one by one. Each number was repeated 16 times, over a total duration of 90 seconds. The subjects\u2019 brainwaves were monitored for telltale peaks that would rat them out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe correct answer was found by the first guess in 20% of the cases for the experiment with the PIN, the debit cards, people, and the ATM machine,\u201d write the researchers. \u201cThe location was exactly guessed for 30% of users, month of birth for almost 60% and the bank based on the ATM machines for almost 30%.\u201d<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/102968008\/On-the-Feasibility-of-Side-Channel-Attacks-with-Brain-Computer-Interfaces\" target=\"_blank\">On the Feasibility of Side-Channel Attacks with Brain-Computer Interfaces<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/56969-biggest-hacks-of-2012-so-far.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Biggest hacks of 2012 (so far)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/56065-hackers-see-unprotected-data-as-fair-game.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Hackers see unprotected data as fair game<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Stratfor warns hacking victims of further woes\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/40371-stratfor-warns-hacking-victims-of-further-woes.html\">Stratfor warns hacking victims of further woes<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers investigate how brainwaves can be hacked to access personal information<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340900,"featured_media":25173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[14955,14957,14959,461,7979],"class_list":["post-58631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-brain-hack","tag-brain-monitoring","tag-eeg-headset","tag-hacking","tag-quicknews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58645,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58631\/revisions\/58645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}