Millions of Wireless Keyboards Can Let Hackers See What You're Typing

Sat, 6 Aug 2016 13:10:19 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<http://gizmodo.com/millions-of-wireless-keyboards-can-let-hackers-see-what-1784315125>

"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."

Yet another reason to avoid cheap wireless keyboards.

Via Lauren Weinstein.

Cheers,
        *** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net                   Andrew Pam
http://www.xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
http://www.glasswings.com.au/             Partner, Glass Wings
http://www.sericyb.com.au/                Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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