WiFi mouse leave billions at risk of computer hack: cyber security firm
http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Technology Balint Seeber and Marc Newlin are checking how far apart they can be while still have the ability to hack into one another’s computers. It turns out its not a small distance -it’s 180 meters (around 197 yards) – the length of approximately one and a half American football fields. The pair work for Bastille , a startup cyber security firm that has uncovered a vulnerability they say leaves millions of networks and billions of computers susceptible to attack. They are calling it Mousejack . Unlike Keyboards, wireless mice from corporations like HP, Lenovo, Amazon, Dell and others use unencrypted signals to communicate with computers. “They have not encrypted the mouse signals, that makes it possible for the attacker to send unencrypted signals to the WiFi dongle pretending to be a keyboard and have it result as keystrokes in your pc. This could be the same as if the attacker was sitting at your pc typing on the computer,” stated the security researcher,