pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/07/keyboard.jpg” class=”left image340″ width=”340″ /Thinking about plugging your laptop into one of those coveted airplane terminal power outlets while you wait for your flight to arrive? Be careful, because a hacker could be using those energy-giving wires against you./p pThe technique is a form of keylogging, which is nothing new, but in an interesting twist hackers have figured out a non-traditional way to replicate the process using nothing but the electric signals created with each keystroke. Oh, and even if you aren’t plugged into a socket, they they can still log keystrokes remotely using a laser./p pCalled the “power-line exploit,” the two-part technique is outlined in a Network World article ominously headlined “How to use electrical outlets and cheap lasers to steal data,” and will be but one of several nefarious data-stealing methods on display at a class=”autolink” title=”Click here to read more posts tagged BLACK HAT” href=”http://gizmodo.com/tag/black-hat/”Black Hat/a [...]
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pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/07/keyboard.jpg” class=”left image340″ width=”340″ /Thinking about plugging your laptop into one of those coveted airplane terminal power outlets while you wait for your flight to arrive? Be careful, because a hacker could be using those energy-giving wires against you./p pThe technique is a form of keylogging, which is nothing new, but in an interesting twist hackers have figured out a non-traditional way to replicate the process using nothing but the electric signals created with each keystroke. Oh, and even if you aren’t plugged into a socket, they they can still log keystrokes remotely using a laser./p pCalled the “power-line exploit,” the two-part technique is outlined in a Network World article ominously headlined “How to use electrical outlets and cheap lasers to steal data,” and will be but one of several nefarious data-stealing methods on display at a class=”autolink” title=”Click here to read more posts tagged BLACK HAT” href=”http://gizmodo.com/tag/black-hat/”Black Hat/a [...]
Original post by Jack Loftus
pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/07/katydid.jpg” class=”left image160″ width=”160″ /The Pentagon is known for its ominous pet projects, but here’s one we can honestly say doesn’t have us losing any sleep: Cyborg crickets./p pNo, seriously, cyborg crickets. This is a emgood/em thing!/p pWhy? Simple. When a building collapses, say from an earthquake or a terrorist bombing, survivors are often trapped in the rubble. Sometimes they’re rescued, and sometimes, due to the nature of being buried alive under tons and even tonnes of rock (something we emdo/em lose sleep over), they aren’t./p pEnter the cyborg crickets. What the Pentagon hopes to do is make these six-legged pests into chemical sniffers and eventually even human sniffers when catastrophe strikes./p pThey’ll do this by implanting electrodes into winged insects to control their wing muscles. The inaugural class of crickets, cicadas and katydids are already being worked on as I type this, so that their usual calls and [...]
Original post by Jack Loftus