Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Your credit card might already be for sale on the black market Computer scientists have developed an audio malware prototype ...

When security researcher Dragos Ruiu claimed malware dubbed “badBIOS” allowed infected machines to communicate using sound waves alone—no network connection needed—people said he was crazy. New ...

If malware that can infect your computer through its speakers sounds like some kind of horrible nightmare, that’s the appropriate reaction and demonstrates that your brain is functioning normally.

Projecting noise in the same inaudible frequencies should make it harder to create this type of mesh network, but that would only kick off an arms race between the malware writers and the targets.

In a development likely to concern those who believe that a system that’s not connected to a network is safe from surveillance, researchers have demonstrated that microphones and speakers built into ...

Computer scientists have developed an audio malware prototype that's capable of establishing communication between devices that do not have an active network connection, Ars Technica reports. Instead, ...