Security News > 2017 > August > Hacking a Gene Sequencer by Encoding Malware in a DNA Strand (Schneier on Security)

One of the common ways to hack a computer is to mess with its input data. That is, if you can feed the computer data that it interprets -- or misinterprets -- in a particular way, you can trick the computer into doing things that it wasn't intended to do. This is basically what a buffer overflow attack is: the...

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