Security News

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...

Malware Encoded Into DNA Hacks the Computer that Reads It (The Hackers News)
2017-08-10 01:01

Do you know — 1 Gram of DNA Can Store 1,000,000,000 Terabyte of Data for 1000+ Years? Even in March this year, a team of researchers successfully stored digital data — an entire operating system,...

Nature vs Nurture - Is Bad Cybersecurity in Our DNA? (Security Week)
2017-05-31 14:35

Einstein is often quoted as having said that insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different result. When it comes to cybersecurity, based on that definition, we must...

Adding CIA to DNA (Threatpost)
2016-09-06 14:30

In this Threatpost op-ed, computer engineer Alexandrea Mellen explores the need for information security concepts in genetic engineering, and how concepts such as the security triad of...

The Fallibility of DNA Evidence (Schneier on Security)
2016-05-31 18:04

This is a good summary article on the fallibility of DNA evidence. Most interesting to me are the parts on the proprietary algorithms used in DNA matching: William Thompson points out that Perlin...