Feb 10
Microsoft has recently acknowledged that Vista’s built-in speech recognition software could be exploited by bad guys to delete files and even shut the computer down. This clever hack works something like this: A Vista user downloads and plays a malicious audio file, probably thinking that it a song. Instead, the audio file begins barking commands through the computer’s speakers, such as, “Delete all files in the ‘My Documents’ folder,” or, “System shut down.” These verbal commands are picked up by the computer’s microphone, processed by the built-in speech recognition software, and the computer obeys. Crazy, huh?
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