How a Blu-ray disc could install malware on your computer

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Learn More How a Blu-ray disc could install malware on your computer   A pair of vulnerabilities found in hardware and software for playing Blu-ray discs might come in handy for secret snooping by the U.S. National Security Agency.Stephen Tomkinson of NCC Group, a U.K.-based security consultancy, engineered a Blu-ray disc which detects the type of player the disc is running on and then picks one of two exploits to land malware on a computer. He presented the research at the Securi-Tay conference at Abertay University in Scotland on Friday.One of the problems is in PowerDVD, an application made by Taiwanese company CyberLink for playing DVDs on Windows computers. 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