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NewsDeveloper preview - AWS SDK for JavaScript in the browser Pin
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NewsGoogle, Oracle workers enlisted for Obamacare 'tech surge' Pin
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NewsAndroid 4.4 KitKat: Aimed at the next billion smartphone users Pin
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NewsNBA superstar Chris Bosh: Here’s why you should learn to code Pin
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NewsMeet “badBIOS,” the mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps Pin
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RantRe: Meet “badBIOS,” the mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps Pin
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Kent Sharkey wrote:
A scary story for your Halloween IT party
Fiction.

arstechnica wrote:
Strangest of all was the ability of infected machines to transmit small amounts of network data with other infected machines even when their power cords and Ethernet cables were unplugged and their Wi-Fi and Bluetooth cards were removed.
Good build-up of tension, now on to the spoiler on how it does this to strike fear in the heart of the reader;

arstechnica wrote:
<layer>has the ability to use high-frequency transmissions passed between computer speakers and microphones to bridge airgaps.
Yeah, and that other PC is continously sampling the sound-data to see if there's a "transmission". And regardless of the OS, the PC flawlessly decodes the isolated noise into executable code.

arstechnica wrote:
<layer>"Nothing of what he describes is science fiction taken individually, but we have not seen it in the wild ever."
"Still, we need funding to hunt for that Yeti."

arstechnica wrote:
<layer>It would not let us disable some things. Things kept getting fixed automatically as soon as we tried to break them. It was weird."
Sure, it was aware of your actions. Hmmm | :|
Bastard Programmer from Hell Suspicious | :suss:
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]

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