Do Electromagnetic Side-Channel Attacks Threaten Electronic Polling Stations? Scenarios and Recommendations

This paper investigates the threat to ballot secrecy in the Brazilian electronic voting machine UEB posed by electromagnetic side-channel attacks, also known as TEMPEST attacks. In these attacks, screen content can be reconstructed remotely by intercepting electromagnetic emanations associated wi...

New Glowworm Attack Recovers Device's Sound from Its LED Power Indicator

A novel technique leverages optical emanations from a device's power indicator LED to recover sounds from connected peripherals and spy on electronic conversations from a distance of as much as 35 meters. Dubbed the "Glowworm attack," the findings were published by a group of academics from the...