Scientist ‘infected with PC virus’

One of the recent trends for the distribution of malware has been the re-emergence of physical media as being a delivery vehicle for malware. The preponderance of USB drives, in particular, has managed to breath new life into this as malware infection vector.

There is an interesting story in the BBC. In this ‘experiment’ a scientist infected himself with a computer virus. They loaded the virus on to a computer chip and then inserted the chip into the man. They then went onto prove that the chip could then spread the virus onto other systems that the man came into contact with, for example, door entry systems.

 This really needs to be put down as a ‘proof of concept’ experiment. It is thought-provoking but not necessarily revelatory. It is a headline grabber no doubt and you can see that the BBC have had some fun with it. My offering would have been: ‘Man becomes Worm’.

May 26, 2010 | Filed Under Security 

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