Hackers Can Now Steal Data by Listening to the Sound of a Computer’s Hard Drive

The DiskFiltration hack, demonstrated by security researcher Mordechai Guri of Israel’s Ben-Gurion University, works by controlling the actuator in a hard drive which moves back and forth across the drive’s platters to read and write data. Think of it as the arm on a record player, but constantly moving back and forth at tremendous speeds.

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Hackers Can Now Steal Data by Listening to the Sound of a Computer’s Hard Drive was originally published on iSeeTech

Hackers Can Now Steal Data by Listening to the Sound of a Computer’s Hard Drive was originally published on iSeeTech