New Tales of Wireless Input Devices

Presented at DeepSec 2019 „Internet of Facts and Fears“, Unknown date/time (Unknown duration).

In our talk, we will present new security tales of wireless mice, keyboards, and presenters using 2.4 GHz radio communication that we have collected over the last two years.

In 2016, we published the results of our research project "Of Mice and Keyboards: On the Security of Modern Wireless Desktop Sets" and publicly disclosed several security vulnerabilities in wireless desktop sets using AES encryption of different manufacturers. In the same year, Bastille Research independently published security vulnerabilities in wireless mice and keyboards of different manufacturers, too. As time went by, we have learned more about the (in)security of further wireless input devices like mice, keyboards, and presenters using different 2.4 GHz radio-based technologies, and want to share our experiences and gained knowledge concerning these devices.

In our talk, we want to present answers to unanswered questions of our previous wireless desktop set research, raise the awareness of security issues and practical attacks against vulnerable wireless input devices, and tell some interesting tales.


Presenters:

  • Matthias Deeg - SySS GmbH
    Matthias is interested in information technology - especially IT security - since his early days and has a great interest in seeing whether security assumptions in soft-, firm- or hardware hold true when taking a closer look. Matthias successfully studied computer science at the university of Ulm and holds the following IT security certifications: CISSP, CISA, OSCP, OSCE. Since 2007 he works as IT security consultant for the IT security company SySS GmbH and is head of R&D. His research results concerning different IT security topics were presented on different international IT security conferences (Chaos Communication Congress, DeepSec, Hacktivity, ZeroNights, PHDays, Ruxcon, Hack.lu, BSidesVienna). He also published several IT security papers and security advisories.

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