Wireless keyboards transmit data for hacking!

Wireless keyboards transmit data for hacking!

Several popular brands of wireless keyboards are betraying their owners, broadcasting their keystrokes for savvy hackers to intercept from hundreds of feet away.

According to research published recently by Bastille, a cybersecurity company, eight wireless keyboards manufactured by major electronics companies transmit information in a way that makes it possible for a hacker to eavesdrop on every sentence, password, credit card number, and secret typed on them.

Wireless keyboards generally protect their users by encrypting the data that they send back to the computers they’re paired with. That way, even if hackers try to listen in on the data stream, they’ll get nothing but an undecipherable mess. Read More The Financial Express