Media Coverage

A 10-min segment was featured on Galileo, Germany’s most popular science journal, broadcast on the ProSieben television network on 30 Jan 2023. On that day, this segment opened the show and drew audiences in. It started with roughly 800.000 viewers and finishing with around 1.12 million viewers at the end of the segment. Overall Galileo had a 12% market share that evening (watch here on YouTube).

 

Our recent work published in ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security titled "ThermoSecure: Investigating the effectiveness of AI-driven thermal attacks on commonly used computer keyboards" received significant coverage by the news outlets like:

  1. Independent
    • "Heat from fingertips can be used to crack passwords, researchers find"
      To read the full article click here.
  2. FutureScot
    • "Glasgow researchers warn "thermal" cyberattacks using fingertip heat trace"
      To read the full article, click here.
  3. ACM Tech News  
    • "Fingertips' Heat Can Be Used to Crack Passwords"
      To read the full article, click here.
  4. Telegraph
    • "Why the heat from your fingertips could make you vulnerable to hackers"
      To read the full article, click here.
  5. Daily Mail
    • "Heat from your fingertips can be used to crack passwords, study finds"
      To read the full article, click here.
  6. Bloomberg
    • "Thermal Cameras and AI Can Be Used to Crack Passwords, Study Warns"
      To read the full article, click here.