Hacking Your Computer Monitor
Here’s an interesting hack against a computer’s monitor:
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.
I’ve written a lot about the Internet of Things, and how everything is now a computer. But while it’s true for cars and refrigerators and thermostats, it’s also true for all the parts of your computer. Your keyboard, hard drives, and monitor are all individual computers, and what you think of as your computer is actually a collection of computers working together. So just as the NSA directly attacks the computer that is the hard drive, this attack targets the computer that is your monitor.
r • August 11, 2016 1:34 PM
related banter from this weeks squid post:
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/08/friday_squid_bl_538.html#c6730622
The current PoC is listed as only working with a single dell monitor but is suspected to work with others, there is a call to arms out on furthering this concept and the slides presented present suspicious evidense of these techniques maybe being discovered as early as 2008.