Shoulder Surfing becomes Shoulder Listening...

["Hackling, Matthew (AU - Melbourne)" <mhackling () deloitte com au>]

Well here's some james bond type stuff...

 

We all remember tempest and EMR interception......well wait for it!

 

Researchers were able to identify text typed by listening and analysing
the noise that the keyboards made...

 

With twenty trials they captured:

90% of 5 character passwords

77% of 8 character passwords

69% of 10 character passwords

 

I can see the spooks loving this, using their laser listening devices to
capture logons/passwords etc.

 

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~tygar/papers/Keyboard_Acoustic_Emanations_Re
visited/preprint.pdf 

 

http://www.electromax.com/laser.html

 

 

 

Matthew Hackling B.Sc. (Security) CISSP

Client Manager

Security Services Group

Deloitte

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