"...white hat hacker Ang Cui demonstrates hacks on “embedded
devices”—objects that contain computing systems but that you wouldn’t
necessarily think of as computers.
At his office in New York, Cui
shows us how he can turn an office phone or printer into a bugging
device using a piece of malware he calls “funtenna.” This exploit makes
the equipment transmit data over radio frequencies so it can be picked
up by an antenna—without the hacker ever having to go near the device."
For example, you email a resume to a company. When the resume is viewed
on one of their computers, code in the resume rewrites the firmware on
their printer, which then morphs company telephones into transmitters.
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