Sunday, 7. August 2016
Topic: SECURITY - on August 7, 2016 at 5:27:00 PM CEST
Hackers Could Break Into Your Monitor To Spy on You and Manipulate Your Pixels
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.
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