Brute Force Mobile Pin Cracker Bot
Researchers have devised a bot that uses Brute Force technique to crack the 4 digit pin of smartphones. The bot tries all the possible 4 digit combinations until it unlocks the phone. This bot is going to be presented at Black Hat Conference 2013 which is starting today. The researchers have also started working on extending its capability to cracking other pin controlled systems e.g. ATM.
Here is the video of the bot in action:
The bot is currently priced at $200. Though some smartphones out there have security systems to completely lock the phone on 'n' number of unsuccessful attempts but Android just disables it for few seconds. But in either way, this is a great piece of innovation.
What do you guys think? Is this the time to strengthen the security systems?
Here is the video of the bot in action:
The bot is currently priced at $200. Though some smartphones out there have security systems to completely lock the phone on 'n' number of unsuccessful attempts but Android just disables it for few seconds. But in either way, this is a great piece of innovation.
What do you guys think? Is this the time to strengthen the security systems?
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Kaustubh KatdareI don't get it. The robot does nothing special than just come up with all the possible combinations of the 4 digits and then press the appropriate keys on the virtual keyboard. $200 is certainly a very high price to pay.
Plus, the robot can be made totally ineffective with locking the keypad on say 5-10 unsuccessful attempts and then requiring special gestures or (hardware) key presses to make it active again. -
Neeraj Sharma
Yes, that is quite a limitation as stated by the developers too. It will be interesting though to wait for its next variant which is expected to work on hardware keys but it is rather worthless with the security systems on as it just uses Brute Force.Kaustubh KatdareI don't get it. The robot does nothing special than just come up with all the possible combinations of the 4 digits and then press the appropriate keys on the virtual keyboard. $200 is certainly a very high price to pay.
Plus, the robot can be made totally ineffective with locking the keypad on say 5-10 unsuccessful attempts and then requiring special gestures or (hardware) key presses to make it active again. -
Anil Jain
I am not a programming geek, still even I can write that piece of code in pretty less time. Why they are charging $200 for the sameKaustubh KatdareI don't get it. The robot does nothing special than just come up with all the possible combinations of the 4 digits and then press the appropriate keys on the virtual keyboard. $200 is certainly a very high price to pay.
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