Tue, Oct 21 2008 14:06 Don

Researchers find keyboards to be tattletales

Two researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland have surveyed 11 different wired computer keyboards and found that all leaked keystroke information.

The researchers, Martin Vuagnoux and Sylvain Pasini, used four different attacks to gather information at a distance of up to 20 meters via the electrical signals emitted from the they keyboards. The antenna used by the researchers could read the data even through walls, Vuagnoux said.

Story continues at securityfocus.com

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