New Ways to Steal Data

Researchers have developed two new techniques that use some unlikely hacking to steal data from computers.

Teams at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and at Saarland University in Saarbrucken, Germany developed the two methods independently.

The Saarbrucken team read computer screens from their tiny reflections on everyday objects such as glasses, teapots, and even the human eye.

The University of California team worked out a way to analyze a video of hands typing on a keyboard in order to guess what was being written.