你信吗? 黑客可以从脑电波中猜到密码!

Researchers have revealed that brainwaves can be used to steal online passwords.

研究人员已经揭露，人类的脑电波可能会被利用来窃取网络密码。

A team at the University of Alabama at Birmingham found brainwave-sensing headsets, also known as EEG or electroencephalograph headsets, put users at risk.

伯明翰阿拉巴马大学的一个研究团队发现，脑电波耳机会（或称之为EEG、脑电图耳机）使用户处于巨大风险之中。

They have become commonplace both as medical devices but also as game controllers, ranging in price from $150 to $800.

这些仪器在医疗器械和游戏控制器中很普遍，价格从150美元到800美元不等。

'These emerging devices open immense opportunities for everyday users,' said Nitesh Saxena, Ph.D., associate professor in the UAB College of Arts and Sciences Department of Computer and Information Sciences.

阿拉巴马大学艺术科学学院计算机与信息科学系副教授尼泰什·赛克森纳博士表示：“这些新设备为普通用户带来了巨大的机会。”

'However, they could also raise significant security and privacy threats as companies work to develop even more advanced brain-computer interface technology.'

“但是随着企业开发更加先进的脑机接口技术，它们也可能会引发重大的安全和隐私威胁。”

The team found that a person who paused a video game and logged into a bank account while wearing an EEG headset was at risk for having their passwords or other sensitive data stolen by a malicious software program.

该团队发现，对于那些佩戴脑电图耳机、暂停游戏并登陆银行账户的人来说，他们就存在着被恶意软件窃取密码或其他敏感数据的风险。

Saxena and his team used one EEG headset currently available to consumers online and one clinical-grade headset used for scientific research to demonstrate how easily a malicious software program could passively eavesdrop on a user's brainwaves.

赛克森纳和他团队使用了两种脑波设备--一种能在网上买到，另一种则是用于科学研究的临床级别设备，从而展示恶意软件是多么轻松地就能被动窃取用户的脑电波。

While typing, a user's inputs correspond with their visual processing, as well as hand, eye and head muscle movements. All these movements are captured by EEG headsets.

在打字的时候，用户的输入是与视觉处理以及手、眼和头部肌肉的运动相一致的。而所有这些动作都能被脑电图耳机捕捉到。