Keyboard sniffers to steal data

Posted by epi0Bauqu on Tuesday October 21, 2008 @08:23AM
from the news.bbc.co.uk dept.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7681534.stm

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Re:Keyboard sniffers to steal data by streety on Tuesday October 21, 2008 @09:54AM (#338899)

There was a story a few months ago about being able to figure out which keys were pressed by the sound they made. Does anyone know how that story developed? If it was validated then I'm not sure this new attack vector really changes anything.

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Re:Keyboard sniffers to steal data by zandorg on Tuesday October 21, 2008 @11:07AM (#338964)

I can read passwords over someone's shoulder while they're being typed in. However, I usually look away to avoid temptation (University lecturer's root, etc).

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Re:Keyboard sniffers to steal data by jason on Tuesday October 21, 2008 @11:19AM (#338973)

This known vector has been around. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEMPEST

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Re:Keyboard sniffers to steal data by nikils on Tuesday October 21, 2008 @09:11AM (#338870)

so iphone/virtual-keyboard is more secure ?

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Re:Keyboard sniffers to steal data by bayleo on Tuesday October 21, 2008 @09:52AM (#338896)

Not necessarily... electromagnetic eavesdropping on LCD monitors has been proven possible as well. We're all going to get exposed!

If you're interested the following is a link to a paper on Van Eck phreaking LCD monitors:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/pet2004-fpd.pdf

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