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Malware Encoded in DNA Can Hack Gene-Sequencing Software

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Re: Malware Encoded in DNA Can Hack Gene-Sequencing Software

#11

A 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.

> we see a character’s computer burst into flames

If we can just get malware that can prompt a personal computer to burst into flames.

Re: Malware Encoded in DNA Can Hack Gene-Sequencing Software

#13

A 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.

> we see a character’s computer burst into flames If we can just get malware that can prompt a personal computer to burst into flames.

You could hop from the PC to something like a PLC and sabotage an industrial process (like stuxnet)

Re: Malware Encoded in DNA Can Hack Gene-Sequencing Software

#14

A 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.

> we see a character’s computer burst into flames If we can just get malware that can prompt a personal computer to burst into flames.

With thermal throttling, simply stopping the fans and running processors at 100% may not be enough to HCF anymore.

Re: Malware Encoded in DNA Can Hack Gene-Sequencing Software

#18
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> "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…

Whats interesting is just the idea that you should sanitize ALL inputs, no matter how unlikely it is that the input could be malicious.

Re: Malware Encoded in DNA Can Hack Gene-Sequencing Software

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> we see a character’s computer burst into flames If we can just get malware that can prompt a personal computer to burst into flames.

With thermal throttling, simply stopping the fans and running processors at 100% may not be enough to HCF anymore.

The infamous old video from Tom's Hardware Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxNUK3U73SI "What happens when the CPU cooler is removed?"

Re: Malware Encoded in DNA Can Hack Gene-Sequencing Software

#20

A 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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