Keylogging Side Channels

Bio:

Sean Brandenburg is currently a senior pursuing his bachelors in computer engineering. He is currently working on efficient set reconciliation algorithms for distributed systems under Prof. Ari Trachtenberg as a part of NISLab.

Abstract

The first known keylogging attack was discovered 50 years ago by a researcher at Bell Laboratories when a researcher noticed an electromagnetic spike being recorded by a nearby computer on each key press. Since then a variety of increasingly creative keylogging side-channels have been exploited to obtain information about keyboard layouts as well as the actual input associated with a key press.

This talk will include a presentation and analysis of some of these side channels, as well as some of the counter measures that can be used to defend against them.

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