French Army shows Windows Jingle Attack

A tip of the chapeau to Eric Filiol, head scientist at the French Army Signals Academy's Virology and Cryptology Lab. At the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas on Thursday, he "demonstrated what he called the Windows Jingle Attack, a method for encoding a user's password into audio data and concealing that data into the Windows startup tone, a publicly audible sound that can be read from afar with a local or remote microphone and then decoded," reports Information Week.