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Shoulder surfing (computer security) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Shoulder surfing is particularly effective in crowded places because it's relatively easy to stand next to someone and watch as they fill out a form, enter their PIN at an automated teller machine, use a calling card at a public pay phone, or enter passwords at a cybercafe, public and university libraries, or airport kiosks. Shoulder surfing can also be done at a distance with the aid of binoculars or other vision-enhancing devices. To prevent shoulder surfing, experts recommend that you shield paperwork or your keypad from view by using your body or cupping your hand. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shoulder_surfing_(computer_security)   (187 words)

surfing injuries | surfing training To its hard-core adherents, surfing is not just a sport but a way of life, and as with any activity that dominates your life, injury can be devastating. Surfing is physically demanding, repetitious (the paddling element) and often hazardous, particularly for beginners and those who like to push the boundaries. Lacerations to the head, lower leg and foot appear to be the most common injuries, usually caused by contact with the surfer’s own or another surfer’s board or fins (the rudder on the underside of the board); with the ocean floor, or with beach litter. www.sportsinjurybulletin.com /archive/surfing-injuries.html   (1796 words)

I've got my Eye on You Shoulder surfing is regarded as a big problem in New York City. Shoulder surfing is a form of attack that can strike at any time and anywhere people and technology meet. Shoulder surfers are individuals pick a vulnerable target and exploit the information obtained from the person whose shoulder they looked over. www.crimeandclues.com /shoulder_surfing.htm   (3306 words)

shoulder surfing (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-6.cs.princeton.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) Definition shoulder surfing Slang for watching somebody type or at least suspected to be "shoulder surfing" if you look over his her shoulder to check He's one of those Corona Del Mar kooks anyways. Shoulder surfing refers to a direct observation such as looking over a person's shoulder to obtain In some cases shoulder surfing is done for no reason other than shoulder surfing. Shoulder surfing may refer to one of two things: This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. surfing-gear.sportscentershop.com.cob-web.org:8888 /gear/shoulder-surfing.html   (535 words)

shoulder surfing - a Whatis.com definition Shoulder surfing is using direct observation techniques, such as looking over someone's shoulder, to get information. Shoulder surfing is an effective way to get information in crowded places because it's relatively easy to stand next to someone and watch as they fill out a form, enter a PIN number at an ATM machine, or use a calling card at a public pay phone. Shoulder surfing can also be done long distance with the aid of binoculars or other vision-enhancing devices. whatis.techtarget.com /gDefinition/0,294236,sid43_gci802244,00.html   (170 words)

The Rutgers Scholar Such passwords are easier to remember, but are vulnerable to shoulder surfing (which consists of simply watching a user login). Due to this vulnerability to shoulder surfing, it would appear that graphical passwords could never be used in environments where view of the screen is not exclusive to the person logging in. While it is usually possible to ensure that there are no people looking over one's shoulder at the time of login, the value of graphical passwords as an alternative to alpha-numeric passwords diminishes somewhat if they can only be used in environments set up to prevent shoulder surfing. rutgersscholar.rutgers.edu /volume04/sobrbirg/sobrbirg.htm   (2133 words)

Urban Dictionary: shoulder surfing To look over the shoulder(s) of a person with whom you are currently engaged in conversation to see if you can find someone 'better' to talk to. Looking over someone's shoulder when they are working or at a terminal with the intention of snooping, stealing information, or just annoying. Real term is "shoulder hopping": to drop in on someone elses wave, not at the peak but at the shoulder (down the line). www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=shoulder+surfing   (380 words)

She cracked my hotmail password: a sad shoulder surfing story So she shoulder surfed me one night, got my password, and got into my account while I was at work. The truth is that anyone can be a shoulder surfer if your password is really weak or you type your pin code very slow and display it for everyone like an instructional video. I've shoulder surfed people by accident which is why I typically avert my eyes when people type. www.elamb.org /hacked/shoulder-surf.htm   (796 words)

Word Spy - shoulder surfing Stealing a computer password or access code by peeking over a person's shoulder while they type in the characters. "Shoulder surfing" is the term for someone who stands behind a customer and looks over his or her shoulder, sometimes using binoculars, to discover the customer's secret code. Shoulder surfing, the stealing of passwords by watching users sign on to systems at their terminals, is generally a ploy of employees. www.wordspy.com /words/shouldersurfing.asp   (249 words)

Shoulder surfing (surfing) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In surfing, shoulder surfing refers to shoulder hopping. Shoulder hoppers do not take off on the critical part of the wave where there is a need for a high level of skill, but take off further down the line. They are often regarded as annoying by more experienced surfers because shoulder hoppers will sometimes drop in on a surfer already riding the wave – which breaches surfing etiquette of "first on wave has right of way". en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shoulder_surfing_(surfing)   (147 words)

Shoulder Surfing, Sniffing Worse Than "Evil Twin" Access Points - News by InformationWeek   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) Hotspot users are more likely to have secrets ripped off by shoulder surfers than from sophisticated hackers deploying a so-called "Evil Twin" access point. The lowest-tech way to lose confidential data while at a public hotspot -- which by definition are not encrypted -- is to be a victim of "shoulder surfing," where someone simply peeks over the shoulder of the user to watch for passwords and login names. The bottom line, he warned, is that anything transmitted via wireless in a public hotspot is vulnerable to theft, whether the technique is something down and dirty, like shoulder surfing, or more advanced, such as an Evil Twin. www.informationweek.com /story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=57704059   (633 words)

'Shoulder Surfing' Gets Secret Numbers On Tape - Money It's the videophone and gives users video at their fingertips, but the new gadget is also wreaking havoc on ATM customers. It's called "shoulder surfing." Police say savvy criminals are using camera phones to videotape customers punching the access code to bank accounts. The thief looks over your shoulder and sees you enter your personal identification number at an ATM machine. www.nbc10.com /money/3964515/detail.html   (626 words)

Device to combat 'shoulder surfing' | News_ | Guardian Unlimited Money A device being piloted on the high street could protect people using credit and debit cards from "shoulder surfing" thieves seeing pin numbers as they are entered. Chip and pin was introduced in an effort to combat card theft, since the thief would need both the card and its owner's Pin number in order to use it, as well as the cloning of cards with magnetic strips. However, the system has been criticised as it is relatively easy for people to simply look over a person's shoulder to see their four-digit number as they enter it. money.guardian.co.uk /news_/story/0,,1781389,00.html   (272 words)

Disability Research Leads to Chip & Pin Shoulder Surfing Fraud Breakthrough Research initially aimed at helping partially sighted customers use chip and pin keypads has led to the creation of a device which will protect all customers from "Shoulder Surfing" - A method where a "criminally motivated" bystander can casually observe consumers' secret PIN when paying for goods or services. The use of the lens (patent pending) is of significant benefit to visually impaired people, as it enlarges the pin pad display whilst also improving security. Importantly the device, also provides tremendous additional benefit to customers, vendors and banks in that it has been proven to be a highly effective defence against shoulder surfing, by distorting the view available from any other angle by a casual observer or even CCTV and hidden cameras, thus frustrating shoulder surfers and more sophisticated fraudsters. www2.warwick.ac.uk /newsandevents/pressreleases/NE100000020618   (495 words)

What is shoulder surfing? Shoulder surfing is looking over someones shoulder when they enter a password or a PIN code. There are also some audial variations on the shoulder surfing theme, where you listen instead of looking: Listening to a user dial a PIN on a telephone keypad and determining the PIN code from the sound of the DTMF tones. www.tech-faq.com /shoulder-surfing.shtml   (179 words)

Schneier on Security: Shoulder Surfing Keys Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Shoulder Surfing Keys: It's obvious that "unpickable" locks are pretty useless if you can shoulder surf the key, so it's time to hide the keys. I don't know if these exist, but they should be virtually impossible to shoulder surf. www.schneier.com /blog/archives/2005/09/shoulder_surfin.html   (3454 words)

Information Security Glossary - Shoulder Surfing Looking over a user's shoulder as they enter a password. The practice is not restricted to office computers, it is used wherever passwords, PINs, or other ID codes are used. Could the person behind you at the bank ATM be a shoulder surfer? www.yourwindow.to /information-security/gl_shouldersurfing.htm   (95 words)

Airline security warns of shoulder surfing | Tech News on ZDNet However, the company recognizes shoulder surfing is a distinct possibility in such cramped quarters. While snooping over someone's shoulder in a plane won't allow files to be copied in the same way as an electronic breach, there are security issues. These are compounded--as with loud public mobile phone conversations--when users of a laptop or PDA in a train, bus or other public place forget they are 'out in the open'. news.zdnet.com /2100-1009_22-5059907.html   (859 words)

HiBlog: HiRISE Team Blog » Blog Archive » Shoulder Surfing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) Saturday’s front-page of the Arizona Daily Star featured a good article about HiRISE with a humorous photo of Chris S. shoulder surfing as Anjani P. worked. Someone will be “driving”, so to speak: browsing, “surfing”, zooming, panning, contrast stretching and more, using the amazing image processing tools that our partners at the USGS in Flagstaff have developed. And someone else (or two, or three, or a dozen) will be standing over their shoulders, watching and collaborating. hirise.lpl.arizona.edu /HiBlog/?p=37   (262 words)

Pocket Video Transmitter Receiver Set,wireless transmitter, wireless receiver, body worn, covert, 2.4 ghz, wireless ... To the clientele this is rather convenient since they know that the funds in their accounts dictate whether they should use either a credit card or their ATM "check card" to make a transaction or Therefore, these attackers must utilize either their eyesight or other optical devices to capture the personal identification numbers (PINs) that people key Thousands of dollars are at risk daily from ' shoulder surfing '" [ 3]. www.startechoutlet.com /article1.htm   (1349 words)

Networking: The end of 'shoulder surfing? : AZ IMC Capitalists pretend they can secure computers against mighty hacker activists. Some hackers like to "shoulder surf," or steal unsuspecting PC users' passwords by looking over their shoulders at the Internet café. But new developments in network security are going to wipe out the shoulder surfers, and their cracker pals, experts tell United Press International's Networking. arizona.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=36747   (131 words)

Shoulder surfing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Shoulder surfing may refer to one of two things: Shoulder surfing (computer security) - the use of direct observation techniques, such as looking over someone's shoulder, to get information This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shoulder_surfing   (105 words)

Shoulder surfing, sniffing worse than "Evil Twin" access points - Convergence - www.itnews.com.au Shoulder surfing, sniffing worse than "Evil Twin" access points - Convergence - www.itnews.com.au YOU ARE HERE >> Home > Convergence > Shoulder surfing, sniffing worse than "Evil Twin" access points You're more likely to have secrets ripped off at Starbucks from someone snooping over your shoulder or using wireless sniffing software than from sophisticated hackers deploying a so-called "Evil Twin" access point, a security analyst said this week. www.itnews.com.au /newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=17658   (876 words)

The fine art of shoulder surfing - 30 Jun 2006 - IT Week But my first hack was a simple “shoulder-surf” – looking over someone’s shoulder to note their password. Six or eight characters is the norm, with some logic to them: names, dates or common words like star signs. And the trick for shoulder surfing is not to be too greedy when watching. www.itweek.co.uk /itweek/comment/2159476/fine-art-shoulder-surfing   (999 words)

'Shoulder-surfing' chip and PIN fraud fear dismissed - Security Strategy - Breaking Business and Technology News at ... From 1 January 2005 European retailers using the new chip and PIN terminals will be protected from liability for fraudulent transactions and APACS said the roll out is "on track". Concerns have been raised about counterfeit card criminals who will be forced to change tact by 'shoulder surfing' customers at chip-and-PIN-enabled checkouts and then stealing the card by pick-pocketing or mugging the person outside the store. But Gary Hocking, director of chip and PIN implementation at APACS, said fraudsters into card counterfeiting would be forced into other areas such as CD and DVD counterfeiting. software.silicon.com /security/0,39024655,39125723,00.htm   (561 words)

Slashdot | Canadian ISP Shoulder Surfing If later I searched for and made posts in support of opposition candidates and positions (whoever the "opposition" of the day was), that would also go into the file. If I was later surfing "fine art" sites and a link farm popped a window with underage models up, bang. I bitched loudly over that one and they removed me from the proxy list but it was enough to make me take control of my surfing via a SSH tunnel to the servers I operate. rss.slashdot.org /Slashdot/slashdot?m=6288   (6197 words)

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ATM Security | Texas man charged in ATM shoulder surfing scam | ATM Marketplace Texas man charged in ATM shoulder surfing scam Texas man charged in ATM shoulder surfing scam EL PASO, Texas — Police have arrested 22-year-old Ricardo Orozco for stealing as much as $15,000 from unsuspecting ATM users. www.atmmarketplace.com /article.php?id=4522   (343 words)

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