Ars: Cross-Platform Malware Communicates With Sound

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Ars: Cross-Platform Malware Communicates With Sound

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 31, 2013 @08:42AM from the beep-beep-you're-dead dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Do you think an airgap can protect your computer? Maybe not. According to this story at Ars Technica, security consultant Dragos Ruiu is battling malware that communicates with infected computers using computer microphones and speakers." That sounds nuts, but it is a time-tested method of data transfer, after all.

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Time tested? by bob_super · 2013-10-31 08:48 · Score: 4, Funny

I'm confused, you mean information can actually be conveyed via air vibrations?
1. Re:Time tested? by Rob+the+Bold · 2013-10-31 09:04 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I'm confused, you mean information can actually be conveyed via air vibrations?
  If you'd only listened in school, you'd know that . . .
  
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In Space by Anonymous Coward · 2013-10-31 08:51 · Score: 4, Funny

Nobody can hear your infected computer's scream.
Plop Plop, Fizz Fizz, Oh What a Hack it is. by Tablizer · 2013-10-31 08:59 · Score: 4, Funny

This story is generating a lot of buzz.

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Re:Or EMI by mythosaz · 2013-10-31 09:02 · Score: 3, Funny

SO you could tell who people voted for when one candidate had an umlat.
>implying everyone in Europe doesn't have an umlaut in their name.
Re:Summary is contradictory. by Tablizer · 2013-10-31 09:14 · Score: 3, Funny

My first modem was 300 baud, and we liked it.
My first modem was a carrier pigeon, and we liked it.......for dinner.

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Re:And there's a whole series of comments at Ars.. by Austrian+Anarchy · 2013-10-31 09:16 · Score: 5, Funny

At this time, I'm taking the whole thing with a handful of salt. It's not totally impossible, though.
That is next month's article: "Cross-Platform Malware spread through common table salt"

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I figured out how he sends news! by Tablizer · 2013-10-31 09:24 · Score: 1, Funny

Palin translates Snowden's farts from her house.

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I'll keep it rolling.... by rts008 · 2013-10-31 09:48 · Score: 3, Funny

Is that anything like FidoNet? ;-)

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Re:Hoax by coyote_oww · 2013-10-31 10:16 · Score: 3, Funny

So once again, Terminator shows us the way. Defeat the malware by stationing dogs near all computers to listen for the telltale hyper frequency comms emitted by the machines.