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Security experts suggest USB devices are wide open to attack.–PC Pitstop.<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

Malware Filled USB Devices<\/h3>\n

by Fox Van Allen for Techlicious<\/p>\n

A few months ago, white hat security expert Karsten Nohl of SR Labs revealed that computer USB devices are wide open to malware attack through a hole named \u201cBadUSB.\u201d Nohl held off on releasing the code behind the vulnerability at the time. But now, at the DerbyCon hacking conference in Louisville, Kentucky, computer security researchers Adam Caudill and Brandon Wilson have made the decision to release full details about BadUSB to the public.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe belief we have is that all of this should be public. It shouldn\u2019t be held back. So we\u2019re releasing everything we\u2019ve got,\u201d Caudill told the DerbyCon audience. \u201cThis was largely inspired by the fact that [SR Labs] didn\u2019t release their material. If you\u2019re going to prove that there\u2019s a flaw, you need to release the material so people can defend against it.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Caudill and Wilson\u2019s research, a hacker could use a readily available USB microcontroller to impersonate a keyboard and run any number of dangerous, data-stealing commands on any computer it’s plugged in to. Because of the nature of BadUSB, the attack would not be caught by a computer\u2019s anti-virus program nor would traces of it be left behind after. In short, BadUSB can turn any USB storage stick into a weapon.<\/p>\n

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This excerpt appears with the permission of Techlicious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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