From hard drive to over-heard drive: Boffins convert spinning rust into eavesdropping mic, if you shout!

Posted on March 9, 2019 by Robin Edgar

Eggheads at the University of Michigan in the US, and Zhejiang University in China, have found that hard disk drives (HDDs) can be turned into listening devices, using malicious firmware and signal processing calculations. For a study titled “Hard Drive of Hearing: Disks that Eavesdrop with a Synthesized Microphone,” computer scientists Andrew Kwong, Wenyuan Xu, Read more about From hard drive to over-heard drive: Boffins convert spinning rust into eavesdropping mic, if you shout![…]

Iranian hackers ransack Citrix, make off with 6TB+ of emails, biz docs, internal secrets – they had to be told by the FBI that they were hacked at all

Posted on March 9, 2019 by Robin Edgar

Citrix today warned its customers that foreign hackers romped through its internal company network and stole corporate secrets. The enterprise software giant – which services businesses, the American military, and various US government agencies – said it was told by the FBI on Wednesday that miscreants had accessed Citrix’s IT systems and exfiltrated a significant Read more about Iranian hackers ransack Citrix, make off with 6TB+ of emails, biz docs, internal secrets – they had to be told by the FBI that they were hacked at all[…]