Malware Encoded in DNA Can Hack Gene-Sequencing Software
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#2A friend showed me that one of those NCIS crime shows already did this.
https://www.themarysue.com/malware-uploaded-from-bone-bones/
Malware is 3d printed on to a bone they scan in or something.
Reality imitating art I guess.
What a world we live in.
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#3I wanna be fuzzed by you, just you and nobody else but you.
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#4This reminds me of the William Gibson short story, "New Rose Hotel", for some reason.
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#5Must be the software detecting certain patterns to trigger certain functions. Fake the sequence of patterns and you can control some outcomes.
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#6> "Rather than exploit an existing vulnerability in the fqzcomp program, as real-world hackers do, they modified the program's open-source code to insert their own flaw allowing the buffer overflow."
So really, this is not as interesting as the headline would have you believe. Storing data in DNA is nothing new, and these researchers are just using it as input to a program that was deliberately written to improperly handle that data.
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#7Small earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14979120
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#8Neat. Future bio hackers.
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#9> "Rather than exploit an existing vulnerability in the fqzcomp program, as real-world hackers do, they modified the program's open-source code to insert their own flaw allowing the buffer overflow." So really, this is not as interesting as the headline would have you believe. Storing data in DNA is nothing new, and these researchers are just using it as input to a program that was deliberately written to improperly…
The concept itself is interesting in its own right and this is still a very innovative proof of concept that combines techniques from biochemistry and computer security.
One of the interesting insights to come out of this is that to ensure a higher probability that the sequencer reads the code correctly, it should be a palindrome.
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#10Sanitise your inputs!