Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
A pita sandwich could be used to infiltrate your laptop (yes you read, that right, let me explain). The Times of Israel brings our attention to a paper released Tuesday, where researchers at Tel Aviv University (TAU) describe how cheap parts from Radio Shack can be connected to create a device that can infiltrate your laptop. What is really scary about this is that the device can not only fit inside a pita (see, I’m not crazy!), but there is also little your laptop can do to defend against the attack. The device described in the paper can “read” electromagnetic pulses emanating from a laptop’s keyboard, including the keystrokes used to decrypt secure documents. The TAU team playfully designated this type of attack as PITA – Portable Instrument for Trace Acquisition. The report, authored by Daniel Genkin, Itamar Pipman, Lev Pachmanov, and Eran Tromer, was released to coincide with a major cyber-security conference taking place at Tel Aviv University this week. The paper, titled ‘Stealing Keys from PCs using a Radio: Cheap Electromagnetic Attacks on Windowed Exponentiation’ reports that the research team “successfully extracted keys from laptops of various models running GnuPG (popular open source encryption software, implementing the OpenPGP […]
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