Aug. 16 (UPI) -- Computer science students at the University of Washington have found a way to remotely hack into people's personal devices, such as cell phones and smart TV's, to track individual movement, raising serious security questions, the university announced Wednesday.
The hacking method uses CovertBand, a software program the student team created, which essentially turns smart devices into sonar systems. Once hacked into a device, CovertBand plays repeating pulses that are able to track a person's movement and location, similar to how a submarine sonar device works.