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Title: That Innocent Little Thumb Drive Could Be Big Security Trouble Post by: HCK on August 01, 2014, 09:00:21 pm That Innocent Little Thumb Drive Could Be Big Security Trouble
USB flash drives could be at risk of a pernicious attack on their firmware. Over the past two decades, USB devices, aka "thumb drives," have proliferated all over the world, because USB has proven to be a versatile standard. That versatility, though, also makes USB devices vulnerable to what could be a very nasty firmware attack, noted Karsten Nohl and Jakob Lell of Secure Research Labs. Source: That Innocent Little Thumb Drive Could Be Big Security Trouble (http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80829.html?rss=1) |