The Hacking Signal
That's the signal that hacked our network." - Keller - Transformers I the movie.
In "Transformers" the movie, Decepticons used a "signal" to hack the military network. Being a security professional, at first sight given the current technologies that I know, I think that this is not something realistic, at the time being. Hacking nowadays is done on different levels including application, network, systems and even physical. Physical here denotes fooling people and physical locks. However, after a second thought, this movie illustrates (probably without knowledge) the possibility of hacking computers on the "electronic layer" if I may call it.
What I meant by Hacking on the electronic layer is ... [Original Post]
In "Transformers" the movie, Decepticons used a "signal" to hack the military network. Being a security professional, at first sight given the current technologies that I know, I think that this is not something realistic, at the time being. Hacking nowadays is done on different levels including application, network, systems and even physical. Physical here denotes fooling people and physical locks. However, after a second thought, this movie illustrates (probably without knowledge) the possibility of hacking computers on the "electronic layer" if I may call it.
What I meant by Hacking on the electronic layer is ... [Original Post]
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Comment by Anarchy Angel on September 17, 2009 at 6:34pm - i would say some research has already been done, like knowing that very powerful magnets can wipe or at lest corrupt data on ccards and thumb drives, if we could find a way to manipulate a magnetic field we should be able to write to media and maybe even read. as far as i know there is no way to block the fields but i do know you can manipulate them but only a little using copper and lead and not to the point needed to effect electronics in such a way to do anything other then fuck them up lol
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Comment by Terminator on September 17, 2009 at 3:21pm - That's a very good possibility Anarchy Angel.. My question is why aren't we (security people) researching in this field!. I think we need to do more research into hacking on the electronic layer. Electronic in sense of the layer that is underneath the zeros and ones logical layer
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Comment by Anarchy Angel on September 13, 2009 at 7:27pm
- well we are talking about aliens here so whos to say the "signal" was even RF? it could have been some kind of directed magnetic field or some other kind of wave. maybe even a kind of energy that can say effect RAMs physical state and can manipulate the data it holds by the physical changes it makes to it.
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Comment by Snowman on September 13, 2009 at 6:38am - Unless that military network was broadcasting an unsecured wifi signal (instead of super-government WPA2 lol) and the aliens happened to "speak" 802.11 :-)
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