Wireless Presenters Attacked Using an Arduino

An anonymous reader writes "This week Dutch security researcher Niels Teusink described a method of attacking wireless presenter devices at an Amsterdam security conference. He had a demo showing how it is possible to use an Arduino and Metasploit to get remote code execution by sending arbitrary keystrokes to the presenter dongle. He has now released the code and made a blog post explaining how it all works. Better watch out the next time you're giving a presentation using one of these devices!"

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Re:Microcontroller, not Arduino

[kaizokuace]

there is nothing special with the Arduino when you look at it from a technical standpoint. But it all changes when you look at it from a human stand point. Since the release of the Arduino platform I have seen so many more people that would probably never picked up a soldering iron in their lives make cool stuff. The platform itself inspired many, which is much more important than it being some sort of special hardware.