Hacking Wired and Wireless Keyboards using Electromagnetic Emanations

Marcus Kuhn proved in his paper "Hidden Data Transmission using Electromagnetic Emanations" that it is possible to control the electromagnetic radiation caused by various devices in a computer  using software for good or for bad. Martin and Sylvain from EPFL took this a step forward and created an actual working demo of how it could be possible to create an Electromagnetic emanation based keylogger, which could sniff the key presses from as large a distance as 20 meters.

In these videos, they given us an actual demo of their hadware cum software prototype to create a electromagnetic radiation based keylogger.

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Vivek Ramachandran is a security evangelist and has been working in computer security related fields for the past 7 years. In 2007, Vivek spoke at world renowned conferences Defcon (WEP Cloaking Exposed) and Toorcon (The Caffe Latte Attack). The discovery of the Caffe Latte Attack was covered by CBS5 news, BBC online, Network World etc news agencies.In 2006, Vivek was announced as one of winners of the Microsoft Security Shootout contest held in India among 65,000 participants. He has also been a recipient of a Team Achievement at Cisco Systems for his work on 802.1x and Port Security modules on the Catalyst 6500 switches. Currently he spends all of his time maintaining Security- Freak.Net , SecurityTube.Net and is the co-founder of Axonize. Vivek, is a Bachelor in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.You can contact him at vivek[at]securitytube.net