Dreamlab: "We know what you typed last summer"

The Swedish company Dreamlab, which develops information security technologies, announced that its specialists have developed a technology with which it is possible to intercept all keystrokes on Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop 1000 and 2000 keyboards and some Logitech keyboards operating at 27 MHz radio frequency.

Technology Dreamlab allows you to count logins, passwords and other confidential information entered from a keyboard at a distance of 10 meters. To do this (except for software that can crack the simplest encryption used when transmitting a signal in these keyboards), you will need a radio transmitter and a sound card. As noted in Dreamlab, with the use of appropriate equipment, the distance at which you can intercept the signal can be significantly increased.

According to representatives of Dreamlab, after conducting research that showed the vulnerability of the devices, they immediately notified all developers producing wireless keyboards operating at 27 MHz. Swedish experts hope that their research and the information obtained in their course will cause developers to take a somewhat more serious attitude to the encryption of the wireless signal.

via Physorg