{"id":366,"date":"2025-10-12T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T12:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jmint006\/?p=366"},"modified":"2025-10-12T12:22:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T12:22:00","slug":"protecting-digital-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jmint006\/2025\/10\/12\/protecting-digital-dna\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cProtecting Digital DNA\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After reading \u201cMalicious code written into DNA infects the computer that reads it\u201d and <em>Hacking Humans: Protecting Our DNA from Cybercriminals<\/em>, I have learned that biology is increasingly digitized, raising serious biosecurity concerns. Since DNA is typically stored in databases, this poses a high risk of potential hacking. This stored information can be hacked and potentially sold to the dark web without the user\u2019s consent. This further lets the organization know that stronger awareness and protection are needed. As far as for my position, I would provide training to users to remind them how to use their data correctly and encourage users not to accept third-party sharing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading \u201cMalicious code written into DNA infects the computer that reads it\u201d and Hacking Humans: Protecting Our DNA from Cybercriminals, I have learned that biology is increasingly digitized, raising serious biosecurity concerns. Since DNA is typically stored in databases, this poses a high risk of potential hacking. This stored information can be hacked and&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jmint006\/2025\/10\/12\/protecting-digital-dna\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":31155,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jmint006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jmint006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jmint006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jmint006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jmint006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jmint006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jmint006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jmint006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jmint006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jmint006\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}