Hacking wireless keyboards is extremely easy!

You don’t have to be a modern man to have a wireless keyboard and mouse. Now a day’s almost every household has at least one wireless set. I alone have already have 3 sets on my desk.

The team of Dreamlab Technologies has hacked two wireless keyboards from Microsoft. Dreamlab warns that it is possible to “sniff” the keyboard strokes that are made. What this means is that it is possible to capture and decrypt keystrokes, meaning that user names, passwords, bank details or confidential correspondence can be very easily copied.

More and more keyboards and mousses are using Bluetooth these days but the majority still uses a rf-connection. Dreamlab Technologies examined this type and it seems that the security is lacking on these models.

Dreamlab used the Wireless Optical Desktop 1000- and 2000-models from Microsoft for the hack. The Swiss data company used a radio transmitter and self written software to capture the keystrokes

The software listens to the made keystrokes and decrypt them within seconds. As soon as the keyboard communicates with the computer a data package is send over and the Dreamlab software intercepts that and uses this for the decrypting of the keystrokes. Hacking wireless keyboards this way is extremely easy

For more information and a video demonstration of the attack, visit Dreamlab Technologies.