Computers, printers hijacked to send data as sound waves
A team of security researchers has demonstrated the ability to hijack standard equipment inside computers, printers and millions of other devices in order to send information out of an office through sound waves. The attack program takes control of the physical prongs on general-purpose input/output circuits and vibrates them at a frequency of the researchers' choosing, which can be audible or not. The vibrations can be picked up with an AM radio antenna a short distance away. For decades, spy agencies and researchers have sought arcane ways of extracting information from keyboards and the like, successfully capturing light, heat and other emanations that allow the receivers to reconstruct content. The new makeshift transmitting antenna, dubbed "Funtenna" by lead researcher Ang Cui of Red Balloon Security, adds another potential channel that likewise would be hard to detect because no traffic logs would catch data leaving the premises. Hackers would need an antenna close to the targeted building to pick up the sound waves, Cui said, and they would need to find some way to get inside a targeted machine and convert the desired data to the format for transmission.
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4K-capable Blu Ray Players coming this Winter
Blu-ray players capable of showing movies with super-crisp images will likely hit stores this holiday season. Ultra HD Blu-ray players support four times as many pixels as existing Blu-ray players. The Blu-ray Disc Association will start licensing the technical specifications for such players starting Aug. 24. Currently, content for Ultra HD TV sets, also known as 4K, are limited to certain streaming videos offered by Netflix, Amazon, YouTube and M-Go. IHS estimates that 11.7 million homes worldwide had 4K TVs as of 2014. In addition, some media players from manufacturers like Sony let you watch 4K video downloaded to it. Ultra HD Blu-ray discs will provide picture quality up to resolutions of 3,840-by-2,160 pixels (which is known as 4K). They will also support high frame rates up to 60 frames per second for hyper-realistic motion and object-based surround sound, including the Dolby Atmos and DTS:X formats, though studios decide which movies get those upgrades on a case-by-case basis.
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HBO Now recieves Chromecast Support
HBO Now and Chromecasts are two wonderful things in a world that also contains Donald Trump; it is fitting and right that they should work together. Now, they do. Thanks to an update to the HBO Now iOS and Android apps, you can now cast Game Of Throne to the big screen using only Google’s $30 dongle. With support already existing for the Apple TV, that really just leaves Roku as the only service where you can’t stream HBO Now.
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