Comodo has always been good at developing CIS in terms of technology, ideas and prevention, can’t say stability coz v6 is not that stable… Will Comodo be there and amongst the first ones to protect us from such crisis before it occurs or when it occurs… :SML: :110:
I know people may think its far far away for now but nothing bad to think one step ahead… The guys in “Fraunhofer Institute for Communication” are already working and successful by 20bits per second transmission rate…
Want to here from our Comodo staff and others who are really concerned about this…
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Note: Posted this here coz its a general topic and there is no section for sci-fi stuffs… coz this ain’t help, ain’t false positive or anything missed… future…
Well I must be honest and say that I haven’t read the whole .pdf found here and I’m really too lazy to do so, but I usually don’t trust articles to properly report on such studies, I’ve found that sometimes the articles interpret the studies in their own weird ways.
Sure you can use sound to transmit data, but my question is: What interprets the received data? The only way I can think of this to work is if you were already infected with something, and from the little I’ve read from the study this seems to be more of an issue with information leakage rather then a possible infection vector (and I highly doubt it is a possible infection vector because something on the computer must be listening and interpreting the data correctly and then create a malware from that data and then execute it, what native application does that!?)
So honestly I see this as a non-issue, unless they’ve found a way to actually exploit this without having the victim computer already infected with an interpretation malware.
If I’m wrong here then please prove me so.
Edit: Added a little picture I made of what I don’t understand, what on the clean computer will pick up the sound waves (well the mic duh) and then what will interpret it and execute a malware from the data it receives?
Well Yes I agree with you, even I after reading the article was wondering that if there is no device, for this article pc, who is listening there won’t be a chance of the infection…
But then I thought whether anyone would be having more info or if Comodo follows such studies would be able to respond on the protection part too…
Aside from the fact that trying to write an application that can monitor all sounds for anything malicious in real-time is beyond the processing capabilities of any desktop computer, CIS should already be able to protect you from this threat.
Until our computers start using soundwaves to process data, the malware is going to need to follow the same steps to infect your computer as any other current form of malware. The file will need to be stored to your local storage medium or RAM, then the file will need to be accessed in order to deliver its payload.
Just think of this audio malware as a different method of downloading a file. Even if we don’t go into the question of how the initial listener application came to be installed on your computer, (because your computer isn’t going to be receptive to this infection vector with the standard software loadout…) The resulting malicious file you just inadvertently downloaded by listening to a sweet jam your neighbor was playing, will still need to be accessed by normal means on your computer. Which is when CIS will act…