The Silicon-Carbon Interface
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The Silicon-Carbon Interface
Decoding DNA-Based Cyber Attacks
What happens when a cyberattack doesn’t come through your network — but through a test tube?
In this groundbreaking study, Omar Tamer Mohamed and Mostafa Ali Mohamed take readers to the uneasy frontier where synthetic biology meets cybersecurity. Drawing on landmark research and real-world breaches at pharmaceutical giants like Merck, Roche, and Bayer, the authors expose a threat most security professionals have never considered: malicious code encoded not in silicon, but in strands of DNA.
Combining rigorous technical analysis with accessible storytelling, The Silicon-Carbon Interface traces the full anatomy of this emerging risk — from how malware can be chemically written into a genetic sequence, to the buffer-overflow vulnerabilities in everyday bioinformatics software that could let it run, to the digital forensics required to catch it after the fact. Along the way, the authors introduce the first systematic framework for cyberbio-forensics, blending Shannon’s information theory with memory-forensics techniques to detect threats hiding in plain sight inside genomic data.
Part technical deep-dive, part policy wake-up call, this book argues that as biology becomes software, biosecurity must become cybersecurity too — and offers a practical roadmap for labs, manufacturers, and policymakers racing to keep up.