08-06-2016, 09:43 AM
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Attackers can Hack Your Monitor - See & Modify Content on Screen
Just one of the scary things coming out of DEFCON ....
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We think of our monitors as passive entities. The computer sends them data, and they somehow?magically??turn it into pixels which make words and pictures.
But what if that wasn?t the case? What if hackers could hijack our monitors and turn them against us?
As it turns out, that?s possible. A group of researchers has found a way to hack directly into the tiny computer that controls your monitor without getting into your actual computer, and both see the pixels displayed on the monitor?effectively spying on you?and also manipulate the pixels to display different images.
?We can now hack the monitor and you shouldn?t have blind trust in those pixels coming out of your monitor,? And Cui, the lead researcher who come up with this ingenious hack, told me earlier this week.
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