Hack The Sec-Leading Resource Of Linux Tutorial: Radio Hacking

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<a class="url entry-title" href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/2015/08/this-antenna-can-remotely-steal-data.html" itemprop="url" rel="bookmark" style="border: 0px; color: #3d5a99; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 28px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 48px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 3px 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">This Antenna Can Remotely Steal Data From Devices using Sound Waves</a></h1>
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Remember the previously demonstrated technique to Hack into air-gapped computers using Heatwaves?</div>
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What if the same was possible to hack computers to steal data using <b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sound waves</b>?</div>
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Imagine, If a remote hacker could steal classified information from a targeted computer without having to physically and Internet access to it.</div>
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A team of security researchers has demonstrated exactly the same by developing a new hacking technique called <b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Funtenna</b> that uses sound and radio waves to siphon data from computers even without Internet access.</div>
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According to a lead researcher <b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ang Cui</b> of Red Balloon Security, the Funtenna radio signal hack has the potential to turn Internet-connected devices (printer, washing machine and air conditioner) – popularly known as the <b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Internet of Things </b>– into bugs that can transmit data out of a network using sound waves that can not be heard by a human ear.</div>
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How Funtenna Works?</h3>
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The attacker only needs to install malware on a target's device such as a printer, office phone, or a computer.</div>
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The malware overtakes the control of the electronic circuit of the device (general-purpose input/output circuits) and vibrates them at a frequency (which transmits radio signal) of the attacker's preference.</div>
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An attacker then can pick up these signals using an AM radio antenna (Funtenna) from a short distance away.</div>
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"You have network detection, firewalls… but this transmits data in a way that none of those things are monitoring, this fundamentally challenges how certain we can be of our network security," <a href="https://www.rt.com/usa/311689-funtenna-hacking-sound-waves/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #3d5a99; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">said</a> Cui.</blockquote>
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Here, the hacked devices are themselves acting as transmitters. Therefore, the new Funtenna technique bypasses all conventional network security methodologies.</div>
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You can also <b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">watch a video demonstration</i></b> of how Funtenna works below:</div>
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Funtenna is actually using a technique known as "<b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hardware Agnostic</i></b>," which is generally available to operate with all modern computer systems and embedded devices.</div>
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The team showcased its new technique in action at the Black Hat security summit in Las Vegas on Wednesday. It will also release a "proof-of-concept" code for researchers and hackers.</div>
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