Synchronized DNA Sources for Unconditionally Secure Cryptography

Secure communication is the cornerstone of modern infrastructures, yet achieving unconditional security -resistant to any computational attack- remains a fundamental challenge. The One-Time Pad OTP, proven by Shannon to offer perfect secrecy, requires a shared random key as long as the message,...

CISA Warns of Critical Flaws in Illumina's DNA Sequencing Instruments

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has released an Industrial Control Systems ICS medical advisory warning of a critical flaw impacting Illumina medical devices. The issues impact the Universal Copy Service UCS software in the Illumina MiSeqDx, NextSeq 550Dx, iScan, iS...

CISA Warned About Critical Vulnerabilities in Illumina's DNA Sequencing Devices

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and Food and Drug Administration FDA have issued an advisory about critical security vulnerabilities in Illumina's next-generation sequencing NGS software. Three of the flaws are rated 10 out of 10 for severity on the Common...

Friday Squid Blogging: More on the Giant Squid's DNA

Following on from last week's post, here's more information on sequencing the DNA of the giant squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

dnaLIMS DNA Sequencing - Directory Traversal Session Hijacking Cross-Site Scripting

dnaLIMS DNA Sequencing - Directory Traversal Session Hijacking Cross-Site Scripting Title: Multiple vulnerabilities discovered in dnaLIMS DNA sequencing web-application Advisory URL: https://www.shorebreaksecurity.com/blog/product-security-advisory-psa0002-dnalims/ Date published: Mar 08, 2017...