Breaching Air-Gap Security With Radio

An anonymous reader writes: Security researcher Mordechai Guri with the guidance of Prof. Yuval Elovici from the cyber security labs at Ben-Gurion University in Israel presented at MALCON 2014 a breakthrough method ("AirHopper") for leaking data from an isolated computer to a mobile phone without the presence of a network. In highly secure facilities the assumption today is that data can not leak outside of an isolated internal network. It is called air-gap security. AirHopper demonstrates how the computer display can be used for sending data from the air-gapped computer to a near by smartphone. The published paper and a demonstration video are at the link.

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Re:Meh

[Mr D from 63]

Your refrigerator is vulnerable once I break into your house. You should consider hiding your beer somewhere safe.

Re:Tempest

[PsiCTO]

Indeed, referenced in their paper

[11] W. van Eck, "Electromagnetic Radiation from Video Display Units: An Eavesdropping Risk?," Computers and Security 4, pp. 269-286, 1985.

Been doing it for years

[fibrewire]

The correct term for this air-gap horseshit is called a Tempest Attack, and we've been doing it for years... 20 years? 30 YEARS???

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