Millions of Wireless Keyboards Can Let Hackers See What You're Typing
http://gizmodo.com/millions-of-wireless-keyboards-can-let-hackers-see-what-1784315125?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gizmodo%2Ffull+%28Gizmodo%29
A newly discovered set of wireless keyboard vulnerabilities
can let hachers take over your keyboard and secretly record
what you type. It's called KeySniffer, and it spells death
for millions of wireless, radio-based keyboards. According to
security researchers at Bastille, the so-called KeySniffer
vulnerability affects wireless keyboards that use a less
secure, radio-based communication protocol rather than a
Bluetooth connection. The affected keyboards come from eight
different hardware makers and use transceiver chips or
non-Bluetooth chips. These chips are cheaper than Bluetooth
chips, but they also don't receive Bluetooth's frequent
security updates. That's a problem.
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My primary keyboards are all wired. On rare occasions, I use a
Bluetooth keyboard unaffected by this specific issue.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
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I have consulted to Google, but I am not currently
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