Comments on: Swiss Researchers Sniff Password from Wired Keyboard

By: Morgan Storey

Morgan Storey — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:02:07 +0000

Most of them are secured in someway, ATM’s by there very safe-like construction block a lot of RF, you can pick it up internall or if you are real close. These types of things have been known for a while see Terminator 2 :P
Alarm Keypads maybe able to be picked up depending again on their design and construction.

By: Ingo

Ingo — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:57:49 +0000

Imagine using this to eavesdrop an ATM, or the alarm keypad in a house…

By: goodpeople

goodpeople — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:17:40 +0000

Fun to read. More fun to eplore, but hardly a threat for the majority of people.

By: Pantagruel

Pantagruel — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 10:05:11 +0000

Eventhought the technique of data capturing through EM monitoring is indeed quite old school, it’s still a good story.

Guess it’s time to swap the tin-foil hat for a Copper-foil version ;)
and for those fond of home improvement, have a look at:

networks.silicon.com/lans/0,39024663,39121501,00.htm

Wonder what designs they offer :)

By: Morgan Storey

Morgan Storey — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:37:08 +0000

@CBRP1R8: Exactly, special film on the glass, absorbing metal in the walls, and you are done. Bad luck if you have a mobile etc though.
One of the guys at work worked on a job a few years ago where they successfully captured data travelling over cat5 from about 20ft away and through the side of a building, that is pretty scary, but like you said if it really is needed faraday cage the whole building and be done with it.

By: CBRP1R8

CBRP1R8 — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:04:42 +0000

This is standard Tempest Security and has been known about and well documented since WW2. Electronics emenate a field, this can be monitored, period. From the teletype and mod28′s up to the 70′s to the mod 40′s in the 70-80′s and then the replacement of PC’s in the 90′s. Not really anything new, but now they concentrate on making the building tempest proof instead of the equipment, its much more effecient to have a SES or faraday cage or clean room whatever you want to call it then it is to try to proof all the equipment.

By: navin

navin — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:49:33 +0000

OMG…this is James Bondishly cool!!

By the way, I don’t agree with Degis…Van Eck phreaking is almost nil coz of the fact tht most companies use methods to encode videos such tht its not disturbing the image on the screen, but is harder to reverse engineer the electro mag radiations into images!!

By: Degis

Degis — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:35:45 +0000

Would not an “on-screen keyboard” be vulnerable from an Van Eck eavesdropper instead. But if the typing is showing up on screen, you’re always vulnerable to Van Eck I guess…