ultrasonic signals

Pierluigi Paganini June 02, 2018
Crashing HDDs by launching an attack with sonic and ultrasonic signals

A team of researchers from the University of Michigan and Zhejiang University has devised a method to cause physical damage to hard drives by using sonic and ultrasonic signals. An attacker just needs to play ultrasonic sounds through a built-in speaker of a target computer or by using a speaker in its proximity. The principle is […]