{"id":150446,"date":"2022-11-17T18:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T00:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/researchers-discover-how-music-could-be-used-to-trigger-a-deadly-pathogen-release"},"modified":"2022-11-17T18:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T00:22:19","slug":"researchers-discover-how-music-could-be-used-to-trigger-a-deadly-pathogen-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/researchers-discover-how-music-could-be-used-to-trigger-a-deadly-pathogen-release","title":{"rendered":"Researchers discover how music could be used to trigger a deadly pathogen release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-discover-how-music-could-be-used-to-trigger-a-deadly-pathogen-release2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have discovered that the safe operation of a negative pressure room\u2014a space in a hospital or biological research laboratory designed to protect outside areas from exposure to deadly pathogens\u2014can be disrupted by an attacker armed with little more than a smartphone.<\/p>\n<p>According to UCI cyber-physical systems security experts, who shared their findings with attendees at the Association for Computing Machinery\u2019s recent Conference on Computer and Communications Security in Los Angeles, mechanisms that control airflow in and out of biocontainment facilities can be tricked into functioning irregularly by a sound of a particular frequency, possibly tucked surreptitiously into a popular song.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomeone could play a piece of music loaded on their smartphone or get it to transmit from a television or other audio device in or near a negative <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/pressure\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">pressure<\/a> room,\u201d said senior co-author Mohammad Al Faruque, UCI professor of electrical engineering and computer science. \u201cIf that music is embedded with a tone that matches the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/resonant+frequency\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">resonant frequency<\/a> of the pressure controls of one of these spaces, it could cause a malfunction and a leak of deadly microbes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have discovered that the safe operation of a negative pressure room\u2014a space in a hospital or biological research laboratory designed to protect outside areas from exposure to deadly pathogens\u2014can be disrupted by an attacker armed with little more than a smartphone. According to UCI cyber-physical systems security experts, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,42,1512,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-media-arts","category-mobile-phones","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}