January 19, 2014

NSA hacks radio waves unconnected PC

The New York Times reports that the National Security Agency (NSA) is able to hack data and install malware on so-called air gapped computers that are physically disconnected from the Internet and any kind network. Recently, security researchers have tried to find out if a malware cleverly developed would be able to steal data on a computer using high frequency signals. This is the case of security researcher Dragos Ruiu who said that the name of badBios malware could hijack the microphone and the speaker of a PC. But according to the New York Times, while security professionals think, the National Security Agency is actively hack machine data, theoretically protected by a wall completely sealed off because of any network, and even there install malware. But unlike badBios, NSA does not try to find new software methods to retrieve the data: the U.S. agency has developed a high-tech approach to play as the good old days. Listening to long-range Imagine an Iranian official with a laptop
http://www.bnxit.com/nsa-hacks-radio-waves-unconnected-pc/

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