Friday, March 13, 2009
Sniffing keystrokes from thin air
This kind of research is like catnip for infosec professionals: a study about deducing keyboard strokes by monitoring electromagnetic radiation. It reminds me that it's long been known that you can "listen" to conversations inside a building by pointing a laser rangefinder at nearby windows, and picking up the window flexes which act just like a speaker. Presumably the same technique be used to "listen" to keyboard strokes of people writing documents and emailing within a building...
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Thanks Mark for this article. It shows us AGAIN we NEED to use Strong Authentication.
Sylvain
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