Security News > 2017 > August > Researchers pull off DNA-based malicious code injection attack (Help Net Security)
2017-08-11 13:30
Researchers have demonstrated that it’s possible to create synthetic DNA strands containing malicious computer code that, if sequenced and analyzed, could compromise a computer. The main goal of their research was to test open-source bioinformatics software commonly used by researchers to analyze DNA data for security flaws, and to prove, unequivocally, that the security of these tools should be improved before attackers have the chance to exploit the vulnerabilities. “Many of these [software] are written … More →
News URL
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/0zo1R3ADDno/
Related news
- Researchers Warn of Ongoing Attacks Exploiting Critical Zimbra Postjournal Flaw (source)
- Google Adds New Pixel Security Features to Block 2G Exploits and Baseband Attacks (source)
- WordPress LiteSpeed Cache Plugin Security Flaw Exposes Sites to XSS Attacks (source)
- Researchers Uncover Major Security Vulnerabilities in Industrial MMS Protocol Libraries (source)
- Crypto-apocalypse soon? Chinese researchers find a potential quantum attack on classical encryption (source)
- EDRSilencer red team tool used in attacks to bypass security (source)
- WeChat devs introduced security flaws when they modded TLS, say researchers (source)
- Researchers Discover Severe Security Flaws in Major E2EE Cloud Storage Providers (source)
- ISC2 Security Congress 2024: The Landscape of Nation-State Cyber Attacks (source)
- Apple Opens PCC Source Code for Researchers to Identify Bugs in Cloud AI Security (source)