COMPROMISING ELECTROMAGNETIC EMANATIONS OF WIRED KEYBOARDS
Quite an interesting finding. Two researchers Martin Vuagnoux and Sylvain Pasini have found that keystokes can be sniffed from the electromagnectic waves generated by the keyboard. They tested around 11 types of keyboard and found they are were vulnerable to atleast one of the 4 types of attack methods. They have recorded a video demonstration of the attack
This seems to be a major security vulnerability and can help attackers sniff ATM passwords or other sensitive passwords from a distance of about 20 mtrs. But as per the demo they removed other electromagnetic waves radiating devices like Monitor, CPU, power supply etc. So this reduced the noise factor a lot. So if this is the case, in a real scenario this attack be not be very practical with current set of tools. Well we can just wait till full details are available to the public.
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