AI can now crack your password by listening to your keyboard clicks

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To keep your password safe when logging on to your computer, your instinct might be to make sure no one is watching to avoid an over-the-shoulder attack. However, a new study is showing that you may want to make sure no one is listening to your keyboard clicks, either. 

Whereas internal attacks involve infiltrating a device directly often after "shoulder surfing", side-channel attacks are based on the interpretation of a device's information that has been externally gathered. An acoustic side-channel attack, for example, can use the sound of your keyboard clicks to figure out exactly what was typed and use that info to infiltrate your accounts from there. 

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