Computers can now be Hacked With Genetic DNA

[JimBowie1958]

This is amazing, the number of plausible routes to hacking computer systems grows much faster than establishments can react and neutralize them

Here’s how scientists used DNA to launch a computer attack

researchers say malware they incorporated into a genetic molecule allowed them to take control of a computer used to analyze it.

The biological malware was created by scientists at the University of Washington in Seattle, who call it the first “DNA-based exploit of a computer system.”

To carry out the hack, researchers led by Tadayoshi Kohno (“see “Innovators Under 35, 2007”) and Luis Ceze encoded malicious software in a short stretch of DNA they purchased online. They then used it to gain “full control” over a computer that tried to process the genetic data after it was read by a DNA sequencing machine.

The researchers warn that hackers could one day use faked blood or spit samples to gain access to university computers, steal information from police forensics labs, or infect genome files shared by scientists.​

 

[The Irish Ram]

wow.

 

[MindWars]

This is amazing, the number of plausible routes to hacking computer systems grows much faster than establishments can react and neutralize them

Here’s how scientists used DNA to launch a computer attack

researchers say malware they incorporated into a genetic molecule allowed them to take control of a computer used to analyze it.

The biological malware was created by scientists at the University of Washington in Seattle, who call it the first “DNA-based exploit of a computer system.”

To carry out the hack, researchers led by Tadayoshi Kohno (“see “Innovators Under 35, 2007”) and Luis Ceze encoded malicious software in a short stretch of DNA they purchased online. They then used it to gain “full control” over a computer that tried to process the genetic data after it was read by a DNA sequencing machine.

The researchers warn that hackers could one day use faked blood or spit samples to gain access to university computers, steal information from police forensics labs, or infect genome files shared by scientists.​

And wait until they want to prosecute someone, or wait until they want a body to fit the crime when that person had nothing to do with it.

I mean fk they can already create SYNTHETIC DNA to match anybody out there.