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posted by Cactus on Tuesday February 18 2014, @01:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the I-want-a-whistle-in-my-cereal dept.
Gaaark writes:

Google acquires SlickLogin: dogs go wild!

SlickLogin, an Israeli start-up, is behind the technology that allows websites to verify a user's identity by using sound waves. It works by playing a uniquely generated, nearly-silent sound through your computer speakers, which is picked up by an app on your smartphone. The app analyses the sound and sends a signal back to confirm your identity.

The firm confirmed the acquisition on its website but did not provide any financial details of the deal.

Too bad they don't still put whistles inside packages of Cap'n Crunch cereal!

 
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  • (Score: 1) by dmc on Tuesday February 18 2014, @05:19AM

    by dmc (188) on Tuesday February 18 2014, @05:19AM (#1419)

    "
    I think you are reading more into "nearly silent" than is there. It could simply refer to volume. After all, part of the description is that the user holds his phone up to the speaker.
    "

    I wanted to mod you informative for RTFA, but I wanted even less to RTFA myself. Until you said this, I too was presuming it was less user-intensive than holding the phone up to a speaker that isn't muted (e.g. due to headphone usage). I of course thought that due to remembering the audio-transmission virus some security research detected that is an attack against non(traditionally)networked systems. (it wasn't actually infection while offline, but reinfection using the audio-networking to get the full virus code back after a ram/disk wipe. I.e. advanced persistent threat hiding in firmware that is just smart enough to be able to fetch the rest of its code from network if available, or even over the air with such inaudible audio if need be)

  • (Score: 1) by dilbert on Tuesday February 18 2014, @02:26PM

    by dilbert (444) on Tuesday February 18 2014, @02:26PM (#1612)
    I think the malware you're referring to was called BadBIOS
    • (Score: 1) by dilbert on Tuesday February 18 2014, @02:30PM

      by dilbert (444) on Tuesday February 18 2014, @02:30PM (#1614)
      Doesn't look like my linking worked. Here is the link to BadBIOS:

      http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/meet-bad bios-the-mysterious-mac-and-pc-malware-that-jumps- airgaps/