Well, this changes things a little bit. I remember hearing this as a possibility but never had I heard of it being actually done. It was all theory before.
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/29/fm-data-leaking/?ncid=rss_truncated
Think your completely isolated, internet-disconnected "air gap" computer network is secure from wireless infiltration? Think again -- security researchers at Ben-Gurion University in Israel have found a way to lift data from closed networks using little more than a standard computer monitor and FM radio waves. It's a pretty clever trick: researchers have created a keylogging app called AirHopper that can transmit radio frequencies by exploiting the PC's display. A companion app on an FM-equipped smartphone can decode those transmissions and record the host machine's keystrokes in real-time.
Read more: http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/29/fm-data-leaking/?ncid=rss_truncated
Very interesting indeed! As some who has a small amount of experience with radio theory, I really would not have thought about this as a possible exploit to be honest!
Once I think about it though... it does make a remarkable amount of sense.
Once I think about it though... it does make a remarkable amount of sense.
Great article Richard thank you for posting it.
Quite worrying actually for businesses, but I think it was only a matter of time before someone took this approach. I would imagine to prevent some unscrupulous employees using this method to send data outside would be to lock down the computers totally, but I wonder how practical that would be in some circumstances.
Quite worrying actually for businesses, but I think it was only a matter of time before someone took this approach. I would imagine to prevent some unscrupulous employees using this method to send data outside would be to lock down the computers totally, but I wonder how practical that would be in some circumstances.
I have to admit, I think this hack would be a lot easier, or have a farther broadcast range, if the monitors in question were the old CRT type. Flat screens do not generate as stong a magnetic field. I really would not have thought this possible on modern displays to be honest.
Thinking about it David you are probably right. It is a few years since I was "into" radios and my knowledge has lapsed quite a bit.
Same here... my HAM license is going unused, but I still keep the call sign.@ wrote:
Thinking about it David you are probably right. It is a few years since I was "into" radios and my knowledge has lapsed quite a bit.
Hmmmmm...I am not sure if this is all that new in concept as I recall that a few years ago there was a big furore about the possibility of picking up what a user sees on their screen remotely, over the airwaves due to CRT displays effectively "
'broadcasting' information..so is this not just an extrapolation/extension of this and why really secure terminals are usually sited in a screened location that prevents the ingress or egress of radio signals, etc?
Just a thought/recollection of an old fogey...;)
Baldrick
'broadcasting' information..so is this not just an extrapolation/extension of this and why really secure terminals are usually sited in a screened location that prevents the ingress or egress of radio signals, etc?
Just a thought/recollection of an old fogey...;)
Baldrick
Exactly Baldrick, a CRT I can see this being very possible... but I would not have thought a flat screen would generate the needed field@ wrote:
Hmmmmm...I am not sure if this is all that new in concept as I recall that a few years ago there was a big furore about the possibility of picking up what a user sees on their screen remotely, over the airwaves due to CRT displays effectively "
'broadcasting' information..so is this not just an extrapolation/extension of this and why really secure terminals are usually sited in a screened location that prevents the ingress or egress of radio signals, etc?
Just a thought/recollection of an old fogey...;)
Baldrick
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