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Ars: Cross-Platform Malware Communicates With Sound

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Time tested? by bob_super · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm confused, you mean information can actually be conveyed via air vibrations?

    1. Re:Time tested? by Rob+the+Bold · · 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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  2. In Space by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nobody can hear your infected computer's scream.

  3. Plop Plop, Fizz Fizz, Oh What a Hack it is. by Tablizer · · Score: 4, Funny

    This story is generating a lot of buzz.

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    Table-ized A.I.
  4. Re:And there's a whole series of comments at Ars.. by Austrian+Anarchy · · 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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