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In the News: ‘WaitList.dat” file is harvesting text from touch-based Windows PCs

By Jason Cheung on November 13, 2018 | Tagged with cybersecurity, data harvesting, digital forensics, In the News, password, side-channel

Do you have a touch-based Windows PC? If you have used the ‘Handwriting Recognition’[1] feature, text you entered through any method (keyboard or handwriting) may have been harvested and sent to Microsoft, according to ZDNet [2]. According to digital forensics and incident response expert Barnaby Skeggs, when this ‘Handwriting Recognition’ feature is turned on, a […]

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