Hackers can turn computer cables into antenna to steal sensitive data – New Scientist

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Computers are sometimes kept disconnected from the internet, or “air gapped”, to avoid remote hackers gaining access to steal data, but now there is a way to use a hard drive cable to transmit information via radio waves
By Matthew Sparkes

SATA cables are found in most computers
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Hackers can covertly turn a cable inside a computer into a makeshift antenna that can secretly transmit sensitive data, even from “air-gapped” devices that are deliberately not connected to the internet.
Air-gapped computers are commonly used by government security services and key infrastructure control systems to prevent remote hackers from gaining access, but that doesn’t mean it is impossible to get data out.
Mordechai Guri at Ben-Gurion University …
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