Compromising Wired Keyboards

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday October 20, 2008 @01:30AM from the not-a-lot-of-substance-here dept.

Flavien writes "A team from the Security and Cryptography Laboratory (LASEC) in Lausanne, Switzerland, found 4 different ways to fully or partially recover keystrokes from wired keyboards at a distance up to 20 meters, even through walls. They tested 11 different wired keyboard models bought between 2001 and 2008 (PS/2, USB and laptop). They are all vulnerable to at least one of the 4 attacks. While more information on these attacks will be published soon, a short description with 2 videos is available."

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TEMPEST by michaelhood · 2008-10-20 01:33 · Score: 5, Informative

This appears to be related to why TEMPEST attacks work on monitors.
Re:Nothing new by Constantine+XVI · 2008-10-20 02:19 · Score: 5, Informative

It's called van Eck phreaking, and it's been applied to monitors for a while now, but no-one's really talked about sniffing from the keyboard.

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