Re: Ars: Cross-Platform Malware Communicates With Sound (fwd)

I'm free tonight after dinner. What time zone are you in?

On Nov 1, 2013, at 08:09 , Jeffrey Epstein jeevacation@gmail.com wrote:

lets talk tody?

On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Joi Ito < wrote:
A good third party analysis:
http://blog.erratasec.com/2013/10/badbios-features-explained.html#.UnN2V2R=Zb8

On Nov 1, 2013, at 04:40, Joi Ito < > wrote:

Computer viruses are now airborne.

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Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 14:00:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: slashnews@pestonia.com
To: slashnews@pestonia.com
Subject: Ars: Cross-Platform Malware Communicates With Sound

Link:
http://slashdot.org/story/13/10/31/1955239/ars-cross-platform-malware-communicates-with-sound Posted by: timothy, on 2013-10-31 20:42:00
An anonymous reader writes "Do you think an airgap can protect
our computer? Maybe not. According to this story at Ars Technica,
security consultant Dragos Ruiu is battling [1] malware that
communicates with infected computers using computer microphones
and speakers." That sounds nuts, but it is a [2] time-tested method
of data transfer, after all.

References

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/meet-badbios-the-mysterious-mac-and-pc-malware-that-jumps-airgaps/
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_Datasette

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